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IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired

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Re: IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired

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Post by asystole »

AlwaysRock wrote: post #128
Sakos wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh wow, they even acquired Evernote and fired the entire staff. I hadn't heard about that.

Evernote finally pushed me over the edge when they limited free plans to 50 notes last month. They had made so many changes to the ui and price increases that it was becoming a worse and worse product. Apples free notes app replaced it and other than being SLIGHTLY annoying that I have to log into the web app on windows machines... I dont miss evernote at all.

Apple Notes is actually pretty great.

Re: IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired

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Post by dehrmann »

cs702 wrote: post #85

Investors in Bending Spoons include musician The Weekend, tennis player Andre Agassi, movie star Bradley Cooper, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and director/actor Taika Waititi, among many other famous people: https://bendingspoons.com/people (scroll to the bottom to see all names). I wonder if any of these illustrious backers are aware of the true business model of Bending Spoons, which can only be described as sca…

Except for Eric Schmidt, that cap table reads like a bunch of suckers trying to "diversify their success." Barry Diller, on the other hand, is no sucker.

Re: IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired

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Post by qwerpy »

w0m wrote: post #132
AlwaysRock wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Evernote finally pushed me over the edge when they limited free plans to 50 notes last month. They had made so many changes to the ui and price increases that it was becoming a worse and worse product. Apples free notes app replaced it and other than being SLIGHTLY annoying that I have to log into the web app on windows machines... I dont miss evernote at all.

similarly; I got fed up with an earlier change and migrated to One Note. Generally happy with it; and apps on every platform (including linux)

There’s a Linux app for OneNote? I’ve been looking for one that isn’t just “use the online version in the browser”. Which isn’t half bad except for the fact that it loads pages on demand and so is slow on first load.

Re: IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired

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Post by upheaval7276 »

mariusmg wrote: post #93
cs702 wrote: post #85

Investors in Bending Spoons include musician The Weekend, tennis player Andre Agassi, movie star Bradley Cooper, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and director/actor Taika Waititi, among many other famous people: https://bendingspoons.com/people (scroll to the bottom to see all names). I wonder if any of these illustrious backers are aware of the true business model of Bending Spoons, which can only be described as sca…

Wow, even that /people page screams "douchebags".....

Complete with cringe-worthy nickname for employees: “spooners”.

Re: IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired

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Post by simonebrunozzi »

cs702 wrote: post #85

Investors in Bending Spoons include musician The Weekend, tennis player Andre Agassi, movie star Bradley Cooper, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and director/actor Taika Waititi, among many other famous people: https://bendingspoons.com/people (scroll to the bottom to see all names). I wonder if any of these illustrious backers are aware of the true business model of Bending Spoons, which can only be described as sca…

The most notable acquisition in recent times has been Evernote.

They're doing exactly as you are describing.

Re: IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired

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Post by simonebrunozzi »

brandall10 wrote: post #120
andruby wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The wikipedia page has been thoroughly editted today and reads a lot more factual now.

It is but it's still not up to date with their more recent carnage. Is this just an aggressive PE firm or what?

A PE firm (don't remember which one) acquired a substantial stake of the company a while ago.

Re: IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired

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Post by dmurray »

acdha wrote: post #76
dmurray wrote: post #46

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Is that the law, or is that more the government saying, through its publicists, how it would like its image to be used? Seems crazy that, say, an outdoor clothes retailer couldn't share a photo of a group trek where the park ranger was wearing its gear. Or that SpaceX couldn't publish a photo of NASA astronauts flying in its spacecraft - even with NASA's permission.

Those scenarios aren’t the same: those photos are a literal state of fact, not an endorsement. SpaceX can say they fly NASA missions because that’s a provable fact that they were awarded a contract to do so and anyone who wants to search the public procurement records could verify that. Where they (and NASA employees) would get into trouble would be saying that NASA thinks they’re the best, or that you should give th…

That seems like a very reasonable law, but it's not consistent with what was linked above and what other commentators are saying really is "the law".

> You cannot use government materials in a way that implies endorsement by a government agency, official, or employee. For example, using a photo in your advertisement of a government official wearing or using your product is not permitted.

No exemption made for photos where the government official really did use your cowboy hat or starship! No exception for situations where the government really did endorse you as a service provider of rugged outdoor clothing, or manned space missions.

After all, if the situation was just "you aren't allowed to fraudulently claim the government used or endorsed your product, when they did no such thing" it would barely need mentioning.

Re: IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired

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Post by AJ007 »

ParetoOptimal wrote: post #78
Hoefner wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And Evernote almost 2 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33623402

Obsidian, logseq, or even org-roam are evernote replacements?

Joplin is a good open source option too, feels more like the original Evernote in terms of UI/UX https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/

Re: IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired

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Post by BizarroLand »

dehrmann wrote: post #152
cs702 wrote: post #85

Investors in Bending Spoons include musician The Weekend, tennis player Andre Agassi, movie star Bradley Cooper, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and director/actor Taika Waititi, among many other famous people: https://bendingspoons.com/people (scroll to the bottom to see all names). I wonder if any of these illustrious backers are aware of the true business model of Bending Spoons, which can only be described as sca…

Except for Eric Schmidt, that cap table reads like a bunch of suckers trying to "diversify their success." Barry Diller, on the other hand, is no sucker.

I also like how we are attaching these people to this company as though the Weekend and Taika Watiti sat down and sculpted a plan to get rich by being dickheads.

I bet their portfolio managers did that, and then attached their names to the deal to lend it an air of credibility, probably negotiating some sweet bonuses and spiffs for themselves in the process, and now this reads like they're all a POS, which, while that may be true for other reasons, hides the likely fact that the real POS's here are the stockbrokers.

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