The email I received from Google in 2007 when they wanted to buy Zlio
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Re: The email I received from Google in 2007 when they wanted to buy Zlio
#2> "For the little story, Zlio, became blacklisted/sandboxed by Google 6 months after…. It killed the company…"
This is only speculation, but it looks like zlio.com was sandboxed/blacklisted because of rampant spamming. 4 out of the top 5 referring domains are porn sites (about 150k links).
Source: http://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/refdomains/subdomains/zlio.c...
Re: The email I received from Google in 2007 when they wanted to buy Zlio
#3They wanted financials and a valuation range? And then deep communications about technical challenges and workarounds? Reminds me that one of the nice things about owning a company is you can tell people to go away.
Re: The email I received from Google in 2007 when they wanted to buy Zlio
#4What an awful email. Reads like a lazy VC associate trying to do as little work as possible to pass along metrics to higher ups.
Re: The email I received from Google in 2007 when they wanted to buy Zlio
#5I always used to wonder about the contents of the first mail when an acquisition offer is made. Sad if all read like this! I hope not.
Re: The email I received from Google in 2007 when they wanted to buy Zlio
#6> "For the little story, Zlio, became blacklisted/sandboxed by Google 6 months after…. It killed the company…" This is only speculation, but it looks like zlio.com was sandboxed/blacklisted because of rampant spamming. 4 out of the top 5 referring domains are porn sites (about 150k links). Source: http://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/refdomains/subdomains/zlio.c...
took a quick look, aren't those backlinks to subdomains? No idea what the product/service does but it appears subdomains are the main spam links, not the root.. So perhaps they were duped by spammers creating subdomains
Re: The email I received from Google in 2007 when they wanted to buy Zlio
#7What an awful email. Reads like a lazy VC associate trying to do as little work as possible to pass along metrics to higher ups.
It's amazing how even when buying a company, people can't be bothered to use proper capitalization or even spell out the word "please". Wow.
I must have slept through the English class where they told me this was OK.
Re: The email I received from Google in 2007 when they wanted to buy Zlio
#8Social eCommerce Site Zlio Joins the Deadpool: http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/19/social-ecommerce-site-zlio-...
Re: The email I received from Google in 2007 when they wanted to buy Zlio
#9What an awful email. Reads like a lazy VC associate trying to do as little work as possible to pass along metrics to higher ups.
It's amazing how even when buying a company, people can't be bothered to use proper capitalization or even spell out the word "please". Wow. I must have slept through the English class where they told me this was OK.
I think it's a power thing because they're manoeuvring for negotiation.
Translation: "I can't be bothered to spell because you're teensy and I have another $1B to spend today on companies 100x bigger than yours. Make with the paperwork chop chop."
Then, confirmation: "Give me your mobile so I can call you any time I feel like to make you jump, because you're the bitch now."
Re: The email I received from Google in 2007 when they wanted to buy Zlio
#10What an awful email. Reads like a lazy VC associate trying to do as little work as possible to pass along metrics to higher ups.
What?
They had already met once. Given the context, it sounds like a continuation of the conversation, casual in nature, from a biz person to an engineer.