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Re:Ask Hackers: Are you planning to do your startup in Arc? by plusbryan on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @10:45AM (#99279)
pg: do you think that using a fairly obscure language lowered your valuation in yahoo's eyes because they knew they'd have to rewrite it, or raised it because they knew the hackers they were buying were top-notch?
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Re:Ask Hackers: Are you planning to do your startup in Arc? by pg on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @10:56AM (#99290)
I don't think it made that much difference either way. They liked us simply because we were the leader in our market.
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