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Re:End of the Line for Uber by beckman466 on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @09:55AM (#28209877)
> I suppose during bankruptcy someone can buy their matchmaking tech and IP and relaunch without all that debt and overhead. Seems like a good target for someone to just run and pump cash out of as there should be a way to make money out of “market rate” * 15% fee for matchmaking.

I don't see that happening but do you have examples where that strategy has worked (in tech)?

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Re:End of the Line for Uber by prepend on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:45PM (#28214013)
Iridium networks [0] initially launched with lots of capital and kind of only made it after stuff was sold at bankruptcy prices. Although I don’t think they are phenomenally successful.

I think there were a few dot coms that got bought out of bankruptcy by larger firms, maybe pets.com and toys.com (although toysrus is gone now).

Polaroid [1] too although I think that’s more branding than technology.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_Communications [1]

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