Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster

Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster by ianwalter on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:55PM (#26961418)

Isn't Shadow basically going out of business? Pre-orders aren't estimated to be available until October and I thought I read somewhere that they are selling off pieces of the business.

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Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster by steeve on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @07:10PM (#26963184)

JB Kempf (of VLC) has been CTO for a few months. He has submitted an offer to buy back the company with Xavier Niel (telco billionaire).

Their tech is incredible, by far the best performing IMHO.

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Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster by bleuarff on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @05:22PM (#26961737)

There are 2 competing offers to buy the company, as I know of. One from OVH founder Octave Klaba, the other from JB Kempf, of VLC fame. So no, I don't think it should go out of business - in the short term.

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Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster by np32 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @05:35PM (#26961936)

From JB Kempf of VLC, and supported by Xavier Niel who is a huge VC in France and founder of Free, which totally disrupted the ISP mafia in France.

This video is a great interview of JB + story of Shadow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0c1CJT8X8A&t=20s

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Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster by bleuarff on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @03:19AM (#26966663)

Thanks for the additional info, I had forgotten Niel was the backer.

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Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster by ianwalter on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @05:32PM (#26961894)

Thanks for clarifying. Seems like a lot of companies in this space (at least the ones geared towards gaming) have had to pivot.

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Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster by airstrike on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @05:34PM (#26961924)

Looks like JB Kempf is the Shadow CTO

It's one great piece of tech, so I'm not surprised he'd be interested in trying to turn it around

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