I bet the founding team took half of the 200M and put it in their personal bank accounts.
This is called a secondary.
After so many years I am happy for them. But some people think this practice is a sketchy
WDYT?
In Its First Funding in 14 Years, 1Password Raises $200M Series A
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Re: In Its First Funding in 14 Years, 1Password Raises $200M Series A
#302Earlier quoted context omitted.
Small touch, but my office recently starting 1Password in large part because most of the competition only offer USD billing. While we can pay for services in USD, it's unpalatable given none of our own income or accounting is done in USD.
How did you do that? I can’t find a way to pay 1Password in € rather than $. Every year my bank is stealing^W taking a fee because 1Password is billing in USD.
I went through 1password.ca, 1password.eu seems to direct to pricing page with € pricing.
Re: In Its First Funding in 14 Years, 1Password Raises $200M Series A
#303I've been using a password manager for almost 10 years now and on the enterprise side there's really none that competes with 1pass. They had some security issues like with their Jira being misconfigured and open to the public, but their marketing and imago is built around them taking security very seriously (for obvious reasons). personally though, I don't use their offering outside of my work context. Currently, I t…
I'd say Okta is pretty much the standard corporate "password manager" (SSO) solution. I'm a consultant and probably half of my (very large) clients use Okta.
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#304Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bitwarden had a crappy (and slow) android app, a crappy (and slow, touch based interface, poor right click options, poor design, memory hungry, crippled) windows desktop app, and an OK (for a web app) desktop site. It only beats 1Password on price. If you don't want to pay for a fucking awesome app, good riddance to you.
I'm using the Birwarden Windows app (and Mac app) right now, and both seem great to me.
ditto, but on windows and Android
Re: In Its First Funding in 14 Years, 1Password Raises $200M Series A
#305I bet the founding team took half of the 200M and put it in their personal bank accounts. This is called a secondary. After so many years I am happy for them. But some people think this practice is a sketchy WDYT?
Seems fine to me. They sold some equity, nothing wrong with that.
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#306I can't wait for someone to do web based enterprise password management right, because almost no one has yet. I'm still over here clinging to my keepassxc like a life-raft after the Titanic.
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#307I bought 1Password years ago but balked at a subscription (I pay for tons of subscription software products - this one just didn't feel worth it). Now I pretty much just use MacOS keychain. What am I missing that would lure me back?
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#308I've been a customer for 10 years (coincidentally, I checked email and I downloaded it from the iOS app store 10 years today) and very happy. The two things I'd love for them to fix are: 1/ Make the Windows version feel more like the macOS one. I switch between the two OS's all the time and it always feels jarring to open the Windows one after using the other. 2/ Add an option to cache everything locally. My phone ha…
Personally I like that macOS and Windows apps are different. Those are two different platforms, with their own design paradigms, human interface guidelines, etc. They should have different versions, tailored specifically for the OS they're running on. I don't like apps, usually Electron- or something like that-based, that are exactly the same on all platforms, because they feel out of place on all of them, IMHO.
Thats fine and all but there's some things the windows app just doesn't do or do well at all compared to mac. Searching is one of them, along with being able to use 1pass x with the desktop app for auth.
I'm just amazed that they have so many employees yet their window and browser apps are still really lacking.
Side nitpick: it's annoying that they're moving to 1Password X. I really don't want to run the desktop app AND an independent version in my browser. It's not as bad on mac since it can communicate with the desktop app to unlock, but on windows... ugh.
Re: In Its First Funding in 14 Years, 1Password Raises $200M Series A
#3091Password needs to rename their service. I have told non-technical people "oh you should really use 1Password", have have them respond "Oh I do!", only to later find out they meant they use "one password" for every service, the exact opposite of the right thing to do! It is seriously some "Who's on First?"-level bullshit that leads me to have to be incredibly meticulous and careful when recommending their product. Im…
For anyone missing the context on "Who's on First?"
Re: In Its First Funding in 14 Years, 1Password Raises $200M Series A
#310Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I think most users understand the concept of creating a file, putting stuff in it, and putting it on a file syncing service (or usb drive) Many do, many don't. Even for those that do, there is a significant hassle in getting a file sharing service (gdrive, icloud, dropbox) etc onto every possible device they have. I mean, I'm with you in that I'm personally pretty skeptical of the cloud-based pw solution. But I can…
>there is a significant hassle in getting a file sharing service (gdrive, icloud, dropbox) etc onto every possible device they have. What is this "significant hassle"? Surely it's not that much harder to install [sync app] + [password app] than it is to install [password app]? >Many do, many don't. I suspect the intersection between "people who don't know how to manipulate files" and "people who care enough about pas…
> Surely it's not that much harder to install [sync app] + [password app] than it is to install [password app]?
It's literally twice as much work. Often more, because I need the password to the sync app's service. Where's that stored?
How many characters is it? Oh, it's a secure, 20-32 character password. What a pain to re-type it. Good thing it uses a ton of symbols which are a pain to type on my mobile keyboard.
> I suspect the intersection between "people who don't know how to manipulate files" and "people who care enough about passwords and are willing to fork over $36/yr" isn't big.
It's not "people who don't know how to manipulate files", it's "people who don't _like_ to manipulate files, and external services, and get them onto all of their devices".
Further, I expect the proportion of the first circle is constant and relatively small (I expect the proportion of the second circle _was_ small, but is growing extremely rapidly.