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Re:Nokia To Acquire Dopplr by simonw on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @04:29PM (#840057)
I imagine, as people who travel a lot, they found the service extremely useful. It's also a really classy service, and the founders were well almost certainly known to the investors already.
Re:Nokia To Acquire Dopplr by joshu on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @11:52PM (#840584)
Exactly.

I'd been thinking of wanting something like this (I thought of it as a "social network for airports") for a while, so when I heard about it I was interested.

I would hardly call myself "high profile" BTW.