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Re:Famo.us pivots, fires 20 employees by ThomPete on Friday November 06, 2015 @11:47AM (#10520385)
Famo.us to me was always a platform/framework or even a language more than it was a product or service.

I have no idea how they could have raised $31M on that.

This could have been an amazing framework built by the open source community instead it's now just another growth before revenue scheme that went wrong.

Sad.

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Re:Famo.us pivots, fires 20 employees by jrbedard on Friday November 06, 2015 @11:52AM (#10520412)
Famo.us founder was a Powerset co-founder, which had an highly successful exit to Microsoft. This pattern often explains generous funding of outlandish ideas.
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Re:Famo.us pivots, fires 20 employees by detaro on Friday November 06, 2015 @12:20PM (#10520568)
(for those like me that don't know Powerset:) Powerset worked on made natural-language search engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerset_%28company%29

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Re:Famo.us pivots, fires 20 employees by ThomPete on Friday November 06, 2015 @12:00PM (#10520457)
Interesting I didn't know that. Thanks.
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Re:Famo.us pivots, fires 20 employees by puppetmaster3 on Friday November 06, 2015 @11:59AM (#10520447)
"I have no idea how they could have raised $31M on that."
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Re:Famo.us pivots, fires 20 employees by puppetmaster3 on Friday November 06, 2015 @05:49PM (#10522588)
Downvotes for a quote?

I predicted they would not do good - easy to verify comment history.

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