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Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today

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Re: Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today

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Post by soheil »

paulpauper wrote: post #92
soheil wrote: post #84

Here is what the site looked like initially - so don't be scared that everything has to look perfect and shiny. Plans start at $49/month https://web.archive.org/web/20140701054439/https://vwo.com/ and now $393 per month, billed annually https://vwo.com/pricing/ They sure did listen to @patio11

3 letter .com. pretty impressive to get one of those

meh if you're racking up $100k/mo you could probably afford one. Here are some auction on Godaddy:

  wmr.com $5,000 Min. Offer
    
  pox.com $95,000 Buy Now
    
  otp.com $100,000 Min. Offer

Re: Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today

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Post by richardfeynman »

@paras - I worked at Optimizely in the early days and led online marketing there from 2012 - 2016. I remember seeing your team copy our SEM strategy, so I added Hindu gods (shiva, vishnu, et al) to the UTM query params in our ads for your guys to dissect / get a laugh from.

Congrats on the exit. really nice to see.

Re: Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today

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Post by klik99 »

tasuki wrote: post #130
sebmellen wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a luxury class at both ends of the economic spectrum, as Veblen observed.

*leisure, I suppose. I'd love to read more on that. Is that from "The Theory of the Leisure Class"?

I don't remember that particular observation being in the book since it's very much about the upper class, but that book is amazing. I used to keep an rss feed of new project gutenberg books and when that popped up I read it just based on the name and was amazed how pertinent it was a hundred years later. I haven't read anything else by him, but that one is absolutely worth it. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/833

Also since it was written when the vestiages of european feudal system still had some tiny amount of power, some of the observations about lords who owned massive estates but had no money and would refuse to take on any work, considering it "beneath them" while they starved was fascinating. It's both of it's time and timeless

Re: Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today

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Post by klik99 »

thwarted wrote: post #100
klik99 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I met someone who was an early employee at King about a year after they were acquired for 5.9b - it’s a little different since he wasn’t involved with the sale, but he was still processing the insane amount of money he had. A year on he hadn’t moved out of his small apartment, still contracted, still used the same cheap phone, and hadn’t started investing beyond just the normal mutual funds/bonds/etc. it struck me as…

> I met someone who was an early employee at King about a year after they were acquired for 5.9b - it’s a little different since he wasn’t involved with the sale, but he was still processing the insane amount of money he had Is there a word missing in this? How did they join after acquisition and have a meaningful financial windfall? And being an early employee?

It's very ambiguously phrased in multiple ways because I don't edit my HN posts, but it is technically correct, just vague! He was one of the first employees at King, and I met him a year after King was acquired. The "they" in "after they were acquired" is ambiguous which I think led to your confusion.
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