News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on To Sell or Not to Sell: Silicon Valley Acquisitions Market Heats Up.

Re:To Sell or Not to Sell: Silicon Valley Acquisitions Marke... by aditya on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @04:58PM (#961901)
I can't believe FastCompany quoted joshu from here as well. A stupid blog post from mashable using that comment is ridiculous but excusable, but FC?

I wonder if they asked him if they could use that quote...

One of the Valley's recent poster boys for this phenomenon is Joshua Schachter, who sold his social bookmarking service Delicious to Yahoo in 2005 for a reported $30 million. This summer, on an online discussion board, he told a commenter that Yahoo has "killed a lot of good startups, wasted a lot of engineers' time, etc." In summation, he added, "I wish I hadn't sold [Delicious] to them."

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:To Sell or Not to Sell: Silicon Valley Acquisitions Marke... by joshu on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @09:14PM (#962151)
The author did not ask but did ask for an interview, which I declined (sorry Farhad.)

I would welcome a discussion of how to make acquired startups successful, though. I have a number of ideas on what goes wrong and how.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:To Sell or Not to Sell: Silicon Valley Acquisitions Marke... by paulbaumgart on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @05:06PM (#961915)
Isn't that the point of Fuck-You Money? Being able to say things like that without caring who quotes you out of context? :-)
[ Parent | on HN ]