Congratulations! VWO was my GrowthX assignment so I’ve always followed your story - super inspirational!
Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
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#384@paras: Congrats! If you remember we met in Palo Alto when you were thinking about moving to the Bay Area -- I spilled my tea which soiled your t-shirt :-) This is a fantastic outcome. Why not keep going?
Yes, sir I do remember :) Why not keep going? Well, everything comes to an end eventually. Projects are kind of like that - they start and they end.
Amazing!
Good luck with whatever you are planning to do next.
Hmu, if you are in the Bay Area next.
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#385I’m sure you made a lot of money on this exit, but given that your company was sold for so much it must mean you had already been making good money before the sale? Why sell?
I wasn't involved in day to day that much, and felt it was the right time to pass the baton.
I find I can barely bring myself to sell off stocks in a company that’s doing well, unless my future outlook has changed.
Did you anticipate there are changes coming that will require these businesses to radically change their products in order to survive?
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#386(Co-founder of Optimizely here) Congrats! It was fun competing with you
Dan, thank you! I has been fun competing with you. I remember the golden days :) I've been following your journey post Optimizely! Hope your new ventures turn out to be equally fun and fulfilling.
Congrats to you both!! Paras- you guys were always one of the ones we looked up to when starting Amplitude way back in 2012.
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#388Congratulations! Just curious, usually being purchased by a Private Equity firm spells a death knell for the company. Of course at the right price it makes sense that you wanted to sell it away, but what are your thoughts about what will happen to the company now?
Stylistic note: "knell" is a word for a sound, like the ringing of a solemn type of bell. So something can't be said to "spell a death knell".
I believe that back when the church was the center of English village life, they would ring the low bell when someone died. Being a village, you'd know when someone was ill. The bell was audible throughout the village, and probably to most of the surrounding fields, so having seen them struggle through their sickness, you'd know who had just died.
Anything, words included, that could metaphorically convey that the death-struggle was now finished. (Ironically, though, the death knell of things like companies is usually sounded before they are actually dead, and rather when the company is ill but the writer thinks that death is inevitable.) Although I don't like "spell a death knell" because the rhyme has an awkward rhythm, and it would be better to "sound" the knell.
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#389Congrats and inspiring to hear your journey! :)
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#390I must say I always hated your tool for how it hijacks page rendering. I took long battles with our marketing team, as we fought for every single millisecond of loading times, and VWO introduction just thrown this all into the bin.
And I wanted to put up a negative review on gartner but they never let it through - I guess it was because of the $25 USD gift card campaign, so the paid campaign would not backfire the product. Which of course made me hate your tool even more.
But that aside, I'm really glad (envy?) that the tool was successful for you!