Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today

Post by paraschopra » Fri, Jan 24, 2025, 3:22 PM UTC

rohityadavcloud wrote: post #248

Happy for you - congratulations Paras, Sparsh and VWO. Did the (long-term) employees make anything?

Post by paraschopra » Fri, Jan 24, 2025, 3:24 PM UTC

didip wrote: post #99

Congratulations. Now tell us stories when things were hard and you almost gave up. Bet you have a lot of stories like this.

Post by max-privatevoid » Fri, Jan 24, 2025, 4:03 PM UTC

vixen99 wrote: post #310

MikeTaylor wrote: post #306

How tragic that the goal of startups isn't to make something useful but to get acquired (with consequent inevitable dismemberment and shuttering). Well done on the $200M, I guess.

Tragic? I don't follow that. If the goal isn't to make something useful in one way or another then why would a startup enterprise ever get acquired?

Post by brentm » Fri, Jan 24, 2025, 4:26 PM UTC

Post by mixmastamyk » Fri, Jan 24, 2025, 4:30 PM UTC

paraschopra wrote: post #204

ulf-77723 wrote: post #52

Congrats! What have been your highest highs and lowest lows during this journey? When Google discontinued their A/B Testing tool - was it surprising for you? How has the CRO landscape changed out of your perspective in the last 15 years? 1st party tracking, serverside testing, etc.

I think the low was covid - with budget cuts, we had a sudden revenue drop and didn't know when or whether it will recover at all. But thankfully as we had been profitable from day 1, we didn't lay off anyone. The high is every time we launched a new feature that set the industry standard. (For example, integrating heatmaps into A/B tests and migration from frequentist to bayesian statistics). Another high has always…