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On the plus side, maybe they can expand the payment options beyond Paypal.
Extremely disappointing. Siemens has no business owning or purchasing these sites. Shame on Supplyframe.
I'm not sure they feel ashamed or should; USD 0.7 billion solves a lot of problems for the owners/employees. What was your offer?
Selling a company ALMOST NEVER benefits the employees.
It ALMOST ALWAYS benefits the owners who sell.
And giving the snarky AF comment of "What was your offer?" is asinine and you should be ashamed of even going there.
I have two questions which aren't answered in the article and seem like they should be, * What's Hackaday? * What's Tindie?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are your reasons to assume that Siemens would mismanage these sites?
It's one of these typical German conglomerates that absolutely doesn't understand consumer and consumer products. I don't know if it will mismanage Hackaday. They literally only have to keep it as is. But if they don't(mismanage) I'll be positively surprised.
"Thank you for reaching out @adafruit. @Hackaday und @Tindie are websites of @Supplyframe, and thus also part of the acquisition. Hackaday in particular is a community exchange website for engineers and developers. "
(no need to explain what Hackaday is to Adafruit.. probably they don't know who Adafruit is either.)
Congrats to the sellers.
Didn't realize Hackaday and Tindie were making $70m in revenue. Siemens seems to have good track record in other acquisitions in EE space. I guess they're trying to go up against Arrow, Avnet, etc
Extremely disappointing. Siemens has no business owning or purchasing these sites. Shame on Supplyframe.
I'm not sure they feel ashamed or should; USD 0.7 billion solves a lot of problems for the owners/employees. What was your offer?