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Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair

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Re: Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair

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Post by SirensOfTitan »

According to Crunchbase, Massdrop raised ~92 MM through their series C, and then another ~40 MM in debt over the last couple years.

There is no way that MassDrop was ever going to justify that kind of capital investment. VC is such an inefficient and frankly delusional form of capital deployment at this point -- they have no idea what they're doing. It ironically looks a lot like central planning, where the VCs themselves invest with the intention of picking the winners and losers themselves.

This company should've bootstrapped and remained small-and-manageable. Not every business, not even most businesses, should raise money with the intention of becoming a "unicorn," it is nonsensical and this model has a lot of deleterious effects for our society, namely and most obviously enshittification when the outcome doesn't justify the investment.

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Post by hakkoru »

rollypoley wrote: post #7

Sad to see it go, but it had degraded significantly from the Massdrop era. It used to be a place to get a decent discount on pre-orders from good to great brands, but it slowly became nothing but second rate computer accessories. I still have most of the things I bought from Massdrop - pocket knife, leather belt, headphones, etc. Those products lasted.

Same, still use my pocket knife that I bought off Massdrop 12 years ago.

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Post by vlovich123 »

SirensOfTitan wrote: post #21

According to Crunchbase, Massdrop raised ~92 MM through their series C, and then another ~40 MM in debt over the last couple years. There is no way that MassDrop was ever going to justify that kind of capital investment. VC is such an inefficient and frankly delusional form of capital deployment at this point -- they have no idea what they're doing. It ironically looks a lot like central planning, where the VCs thems…

> VC is such an inefficient and frankly delusional form of capital deployment

Can you suggest other saner forms? For example, having experts pick, government pick, or only one single debt instruments all have problems with the kinds of investments VC funds, not to mention that they also have their share of ludicrous and bad investments.

Also please suggest how you’d stop VC as is at its core a private investment club - you and other investors get together to invest capital into a profitable but risky venture. The only way to stop it would be to either ban private capital or to ban coordination of capital which on net ends up significantly worse.

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Post by __mharrison__ »

Bought my ergoxdoxen from them when they were just starting out.

They even sent me a gift box because my blog post about the keyboard had driven so much traffic. It had a CST mouse in it (among other things).

Still using the mouse.

Nowadays you can buy awesome small batch keyboards from small vendors.

Re: Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair

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Post by Crushable-E »

__mharrison__ wrote: post #25

Bought my ergoxdoxen from them when they were just starting out. They even sent me a gift box because my blog post about the keyboard had driven so much traffic. It had a CST mouse in it (among other things). Still using the mouse. Nowadays you can buy awesome small batch keyboards from small vendors.

Do you have a recommended small vendor? I am on the look out for some new switches!

Re: Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair

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Post by chaoticmass »

m_w_ wrote: post #16

Unfortunate, but as others point out, quality was on the decline for a while now. That said, I use their iteration of Holy Pandas on every keyboard I can. Wish I had hoarded some when they were still available.

I don’t know if it was just me but I had bad luck with my holy pandas from them. I build 3 different boards using them and they all started having issues within a few months of use. Double bboounce, and keys nt htting. This was several years ago mind you, so maybe they eventually did get the quirks worked out, but by then I’d gotten over the custom board hobby.

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Post by ebiester »

mapontosevenths wrote: post #10
andymegacreep wrote: post #2

this is terrible, imho. defeats the purpose of the platform. i'm sad for 6XX series headphones :c

Sennheiser is basically dead too. https://www.headphonesty.com/2026/03/sennheiser-officially-d...

That was a bad acquisition and their parent company is now in a bind, but I don't see a world where they can't sell it somewhere. Hopefully it doesn't end up in private equity hell because the 600/650 line is legendary and the HDB 630 is a true leap forward.

Re: Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair

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Post by ashtonshears »

vlovich123 wrote: post #23
SirensOfTitan wrote: post #21

According to Crunchbase, Massdrop raised ~92 MM through their series C, and then another ~40 MM in debt over the last couple years. There is no way that MassDrop was ever going to justify that kind of capital investment. VC is such an inefficient and frankly delusional form of capital deployment at this point -- they have no idea what they're doing. It ironically looks a lot like central planning, where the VCs thems…

> VC is such an inefficient and frankly delusional form of capital deployment Can you suggest other saner forms? For example, having experts pick, government pick, or only one single debt instruments all have problems with the kinds of investments VC funds, not to mention that they also have their share of ludicrous and bad investments. Also please suggest how you’d stop VC as is at its core a private investment club…

Im no expert, but thoughts:

1. Large firms investing in early r&d instead of aquisition.

2. Its a symptom of decades of poor economic policy rewarding speculation, to a scale that impacts society by disencentivizing stable investments that benefit humanity. Main lever causing this is through Federal reserve poor policy since 200

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