Congrats!
What made you commit and build this project when you were 22 year old vs million others SAAS you could have built at that time? Say, a CRM to compete with Salesforce, or a new web based Excel or web based Photoshop tool?
Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
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Re: Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
> When the lotto gets to be above $1 billion, I'll usually buy a ticket because it's fun to imagine the life I could have with that money. I buy lotto tickets for the same reason! Their expected value is very low but the maximum value is thought-provoking. For me, $50k would be life-changing. One billion is hard to imagine.
What would you do with $50k that would make such a difference in your life?
I’d buy a house, myself..
Re: Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
#83[flagged]
Please don't take HN threads in sour and bitter directions like that. We want curious conversation here.
Re: Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
#84Here is what the site looked like initially - so don't be scared that everything has to look perfect and shiny.
Plans start at $49/month
https://web.archive.org/web/20140701054439/https://vwo.com/
and now
$393 per month, billed annually
They sure did listen to @patio11
Re: Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
#85My employer picked vwo over my own custom in house ab testing tool [0]. I was so pissed! Congrats, yours was the better tool. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23471050
Here's that earlier thread - thanks for pointing it out!
Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23466470 - June 2020 (128 comments)
Re: Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
#86Inspiring. Congrats!
Re: Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
> When the lotto gets to be above $1 billion, I'll usually buy a ticket because it's fun to imagine the life I could have with that money. I buy lotto tickets for the same reason! Their expected value is very low but the maximum value is thought-provoking. For me, $50k would be life-changing. One billion is hard to imagine.
What would you do with $50k that would make such a difference in your life?
50k is enough to comfortably live on for a year even in Germany, much more so in other countries. Allows you to completely change perspectives or to pivot your entire career.
Re: Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
#88Congrats! Would be interesting to see the growth rate of the company.
Re: Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
#89Congratulations!
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?
Re: Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
I met someone who was an early employee at King about a year after they were acquired for 5.9b - it’s a little different since he wasn’t involved with the sale, but he was still processing the insane amount of money he had. A year on he hadn’t moved out of his small apartment, still contracted, still used the same cheap phone, and hadn’t started investing beyond just the normal mutual funds/bonds/etc. it struck me as…
> I find it’s really interesting how people act when the financial pressure gets suddenly removed. It seems so strange to me to hear stories about people suddenly coming into a bunch of money and not finding contentment or even ending up depressed. If I could afford to retire today, I would do it in a heartbeat and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't run out of things I want to do. When the lotto gets to be above $1 billion,…
I buy lotto tickets because my friends do a pool. I'm not sure I'd be happy with the money, but I am very sure I'd be very unhappy if I was a schmuck who didn't put in a very small amount (to me) of money to be in the pool. I consider it insurance more than anything!