Optimizely to be acquired by Episerver

Re:Optimizely to be acquired by Episerver by designium on Thursday September 03, 2020 @01:10PM (#24366183)

I hope the founder exited well. I remember working with him at Google when he was the PM for Google Optimizer. Nice guy.

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Re:Optimizely to be acquired by Episerver by BurntBunting on Thursday September 03, 2020 @02:12PM (#24366904)

I don't. The founders pushed people who trusted them to work hard and value the company over their own needs. While the founders and their friends were able to pull out equity, every one else was told that they had to wait their turn, which never came.

If Dan and Pete were nice guys, they would have take care of the employees that built their company. The employees wouldn't have been millionaires, but they might be able to scrape together a down payment for a house. And not like the mansion that Dan has, just something that would move them out of the fear of rents increasing and losing their jobs.

They used to be nice guys. I don't wish ill towards them, but they do not deserve a good exit with this.

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Re:Optimizely to be acquired by Episerver by hitekker on Thursday September 03, 2020 @02:15PM (#24366954)

Wasn't Dan or Pete forced to step down on account of gross incompetence? I recall there being some internal drama about their departure.

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Re:Optimizely to be acquired by Episerver by dsiroker on Thursday September 03, 2020 @02:34PM (#24367198)

Haha, certainly no drama and no one forced us or even asked us to step down. I wrote a blog post about it: https://link.medium.com/mHgtiQ3bu9

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Re:Optimizely to be acquired by Episerver by askafriend on Thursday September 03, 2020 @05:28PM (#24369086)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24368516

If you don't mind answering, what's the strategy behind a hiring tactic like the one in the link above? It seems cartoonish and not grounded in reality....

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Re:Optimizely to be acquired by Episerver by dsiroker on Thursday September 03, 2020 @06:54PM (#24369773)

Sure, I just responded because you asked so nicely. :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24369766

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Re:Optimizely to be acquired by Episerver by askafriend on Friday September 04, 2020 @12:15PM (#24376290)

Haha sorry for the snark but I really appreciated your follow up! We’re thinking about hiring at our company and your framing was useful to read.

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