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Sold just got acquired by Dropbox and closed their company

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Re: Sold just got acquired by Dropbox and closed their company

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Post by [deleted] »

chrisacky wrote: post #19

The opening line follows the boilerplate trend of acquisition posts. Being acqui-hired is not something that you should be celebrating with your users... PERIOD. (On a side note, I'm genuinely happy for you all. Getting paid isn't a negative. It's a huge opportunity, but don't patronise your users). "Yey us. :D We're super excited to announce we got acquired. High-five... too slow... Now go f* yourselves." It's incre…

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Re: Sold just got acquired by Dropbox and closed their company

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Post by jrockway »

reustle wrote: post #5

I get a google products vibe from these sorts of acquisitions. Don't get too comfortable with that little startup! It could disappear tomorrow...

True of anything. It's just as correct to say, "don't ever fall in love; your lover will either leave you or die, and you'll just be sad then". While true, it's missing the point: the years of joy that can be had before someone dies (or gets acquired, or canceled).

Hate to be all philosophical, but everything is temporary. Even the Universe itself.

Re: Sold just got acquired by Dropbox and closed their company

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Post by paultannenbaum »

chrisacky wrote: post #19

The opening line follows the boilerplate trend of acquisition posts. Being acqui-hired is not something that you should be celebrating with your users... PERIOD. (On a side note, I'm genuinely happy for you all. Getting paid isn't a negative. It's a huge opportunity, but don't patronise your users). "Yey us. :D We're super excited to announce we got acquired. High-five... too slow... Now go f* yourselves." It's incre…

I received an email from them with the same content before I opened hacker news, and had the same thoughts as you. So no, I dont think your reading into it too much.

Re: Sold just got acquired by Dropbox and closed their company

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Post by paultannenbaum »

zedpm wrote: post #9

Can anyone comment on the motivation for Dropbox to acquire a company that apparently helped people sell things? Is Dropbox interested in working in that domain or are they just picking up devs for their own product?

I think they are trying to ramp up their mobile efforts. My friends company was recently acquired by them, and it was for this reason.

Re: Sold just got acquired by Dropbox and closed their company

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Post by dolphenstein »

chrisacky wrote: post #19

The opening line follows the boilerplate trend of acquisition posts. Being acqui-hired is not something that you should be celebrating with your users... PERIOD. (On a side note, I'm genuinely happy for you all. Getting paid isn't a negative. It's a huge opportunity, but don't patronise your users). "Yey us. :D We're super excited to announce we got acquired. High-five... too slow... Now go f* yourselves." It's incre…

I had the same feeling when reading this post. It's one thing to spin a positive when acquired for the product and not the people.

When you're about to shutdown a service, this kind of self-congratulation is more like a middle finger to the users. A humbly apologetic post would've been a better goodwill gesture. High five each other in private.

Re: Sold just got acquired by Dropbox and closed their company

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Post by zimbatm »

This is how this letter reads to me:

Woohoo, we got acquired.

Thanks a lot for bringing our valuation up buy trusting us. We started $service to solve a problem that matters to you. Because of that we're joining $totally_unrelated_product.

Thanks for all the fish.

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