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Re: Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN

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Post by orliesaurus » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 5:42 AM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #36

orliesaurus wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Please don't do this stuff here.

Can you clarify?

Re: Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN

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Post by sails » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 6:09 AM UTC

Congrats!

Do you think the US flip made a meaningful difference (presuming you did it for US customer/investor access)? Lucanet is EU, so maybe it complicated it in the end

Re: Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN

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Post by carbonrider » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 7:03 AM UTC

Congratulations causal team!!!

Re: Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN

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Post by thurnderbong » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 8:52 AM UTC

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Re: Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN

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Post by refrigerator » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 9:33 AM UTC

nubela wrote: post #50

Did you pursue the acquisition? Or better phrased, was the company sold by you, or was it bought by Lucanet?

Lucanet approached us a few months ago, we were open to taking a couple of meetings to learn more, and they sold us on the acquisition pretty well

Re: Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN

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Post by refrigerator » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 9:34 AM UTC

sails wrote: post #52

Congrats! Do you think the US flip made a meaningful difference (presuming you did it for US customer/investor access)? Lucanet is EU, so maybe it complicated it in the end

We started as a US company in 2019 to make fundraising easier, and I think this did have a material impact. It's operationally quite annoying, but chances are that we would have had to do it eventually, to efficiently employ US people without paying Deel extortionate fees

Re: Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN

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Post by refrigerator » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 9:34 AM UTC

monissiddiqui wrote: post #46

Congratulations Taimur! I started following you from your pod with your brother and was super interested in your foray into tech with a math background. It's great to see Causal take off over the years. These damn math folks are out here trying to make everything multi- dimensional

Thanks man!

Re: Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN

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Post by karimdaghari » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 9:57 AM UTC

obeavs wrote: post #47

If you did it again, would you use AG-Grid, or would seek to own the table with something like Tanstack Table?

Not op but having been in a situation where I was facing the choice between ag-grid and Tanstack Table, I'd say, without hesitation : Tanstack Table. What you may "lose" in advanced features, you gain in flexibility!

Re: Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN

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Post by Lukas1994 » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 10:07 AM UTC

obeavs wrote: post #47

If you did it again, would you use AG-Grid, or would seek to own the table with something like Tanstack Table?

We bet quite early on AG-Grid and it got us very far. We’ve probably built one of the most customised AG-Grid tables out there.

I haven’t checked out Tanstack table much but given that it’s such a core component of the product I would like to build our own eventually. Doing that when you start out is probably not worth it though.

Re: Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN

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Post by Lukas1994 » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 10:14 AM UTC

sails wrote: post #52

Congrats! Do you think the US flip made a meaningful difference (presuming you did it for US customer/investor access)? Lucanet is EU, so maybe it complicated it in the end

It did make the acquisition process a bit more difficult + US lawyers are more expensive than UK/German lawyers. It's still worth it IMO given how much easier fundraising gets.