Api.ai is joining Google
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Api.ai is joining Google
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#3> It has been a long and fun journey.
Using the word "journey" is this context is rather... risky.
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#4I'm assuming Google doesn't need any of the company's business, and that it is being acquired for its talent.
So, my real question: how much, on average, does a founder get as part of one of these acquihires? And does s/he actually, y'know, have to do any work after getting paid?
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#5Another one of those services I wish I'd heard about before its acquisition. But at least this one does not appear to have been shut down on day one?
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#6> It has been a long and fun journey. Using the word "journey" is this context is rather... risky. https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com
TBH it has got to the point now where I just assume people writing these posts are in on the joke and doing it on purpose. At least, I hope that's whats happening.
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#7That's interesting they just bought apigee which does about the same thing?
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#8With Firebase expanding to form an entire ecosystem of services, and being kept alive for a long time now, I have renewed hope that being acquihired by Google won't just be the death knell - at least for this type of service.
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#9Of course they are, what else would they do; ~2 years old and already sold [1]
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#10I'm assuming Google doesn't need any of the company's business, and that it is being acquired for its talent. So, my real question: how much, on average, does a founder get as part of one of these acquihires? And does s/he actually, y'know, have to do any work after getting paid?
The buyer typically pays $1M per engineer they keep. What the founders get depends on how much they were diluted by funding rounds.