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corentin88 2024-02-27 13:16:23 | [–] update item (on: I turned my open-source project into a full-time business )

Which startup/company was bought that price?

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shbm | karma 3 | avg karma 0.27 | 2018-09-22 09:43:36 | [–] similar comments (on: Cluep, a Canadian startup that raised just $500K, acquired for $40M )

What is the name of the aforementioned acquired Startup?

loosescrews | karma 896 | avg karma 3.98 | 2017-03-07 15:02:44+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: HPE to buy Nimble Storage for $1.09B )

The headline reads like a metaphor. Huge corporation to buy nimble startup for $$$$.

aiappreciator | karma 244 | avg karma 4.28 | 2023-05-24 17:05:08 | [–] similar comments (on: Neeva acquired by Snowflake )

The stock market reacted quite positively to this acquisition (Basically confirmed a few days ago). Buying a soon-bankrupt startup is very cheap, and getting a strong tech stack and already formed team with strategic synergies with the main business is going to be valuable.

This is contrasted with panic acquisitions like say Adobe & Figma.

byoung2 | karma 4894 | avg karma 1.59 | 2014-07-17 23:23:05 | [–] similar comments (on: Coming Soon to Social Media: Click to Buy Now )

Any guesses what the acquisition price was? I see that they raised $10 million back in Jan 2012.

knowsnothing613 | karma 128 | avg karma 1.68 | 2012-04-09 19:11:43+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Facebook acquires Instagram )

yeah, but they paid $1 BILLION dollar for a company with NO business model.

This buy was just another way for connected Silicon players to cash out on the facebook IPO, since the IPO window for web 2.0 is closed.

YokoZar | karma 2693 | avg karma 3.44 | 2019-05-22 02:20:14 | [–] similar comments (on: Netflix is not the future of TV )

Didn't they buy a company with an already working platform?

shitloadofbooks | karma 808 | avg karma 6.91 | 2022-01-18 07:48:30 | [–] similar comments (on: You cannot play Diablo 2 resurrected after 30 days of being offline )

They just got bought by Microsoft for almost 70 Billion dollars.

altdataseller | karma 1954 | avg karma 1.86 | 2022-03-26 11:12:20 | [–] similar comments (on: Ask HN: What do you do when competition signs up for your service? )

I’ve seen this before with a startup I started years ago. in a few years we were acquired by that competitor :)

eastbound | karma 1372 | avg karma 1.0 | 2022-07-26 14:09:35 | [–] similar comments (on: Having no experience can be better than having the wrong experience )

Cue a random example: 2-people company bought for millions by Atlassian or 18-people company bought for billions by Facebook (Wasn’t Whatsapp 18 people?).

puranjay | karma 1 | avg karma 0.0 | 2022-06-13 00:48:21 | [–] similar comments (on: Crypto Platform Celsius Pauses Withdrawals )

They bought the top of a bunch of (unprofitable) Indian tech startups as well.

dcolkitt | karma 11878 | avg karma 6.64 | 2020-12-06 19:13:34+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Docker's Second Death )

Acquisition by one of the tech giants.

jillesvangurp | karma 16646 | avg karma 3.74 | 2022-01-18 08:12:09 | [–] similar comments (on: Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7B )

That's a lot more than they spent on e.g. Nokia, Linkedin, or Github. To name a few other notable acquisitions they did in the past.

NLPsajeeth | karma 118 | avg karma 4.72 | 2013-05-26 21:02:26 | [–] similar comments (on: 37 YC Companies have valuations of or been sold for at least $40 Million )

$40M+ Exits with Public Prices:

Heroku - W08 - $212M > Salesforce [1]

OMGPOP - S06 - $180M > Znyga [2]

SocialCam - W12 - $60M > Autodesk [3]

Loopt - S05 - $43.4M > Green Dot [4]

$40M+ Exits with Rumored Prices:

Parse - S11 - $85M > Facebook [5]

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/08/breaking-salesforce-buys-he...

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/26/zynga-ceo-mark-pincus-omgpo...

[3] http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/17/socialcam-autodesk-60-milli...

[4] http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/03/09/green-dot-...

[5] http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/25/facebook-parse/

mountainriver | karma 1937 | avg karma 2.09 | 2021-11-04 09:38:29 | [–] similar comments (on: Ask HN: Who's Not Sucky to Work For? )

I’ve worked for a bunch of startups that have been acquired:

VMware: really bad, upper management ruins everything

Oracle: where dreams go to die

Rackspace: hands down the worst company I’ve ever seen

coralreef | karma 1519 | avg karma 1.71 | 2014-05-13 00:40:56+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Why Apple Is Buying Beats )

Interesting, but this is a $3.2b acquisition, which is clearly not just a technology buy.

gailees | karma 429 | avg karma 0.91 | 2014-10-21 17:42:41 | [–] similar comments (on: Firebase is Joining Google )

Still not sure how I feel about tech giants acquiring startups like Parse and Firebase.

Is there some market explanation for why this tends to happen?

astrodust | karma 13331 | avg karma 2.07 | 2017-01-07 20:08:52+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Reasons not to use Skype (2012) )

Somehow I overlooked that, but it's true, that's their first and most significant acquisition.

They didn't buy the company or talent, mind you, just the software.

benologist | karma 12061 | avg karma 2.51 | 2019-12-28 17:28:32 | [–] similar comments (on: Slack have blocked using the website on mobile )

IIRC the interesting point is it was a very, very small team - like 10ish people - and got acquired for $19 billion.

RossDCurrie | karma 6 | avg karma 1.5 | 2024-06-15 01:39:01 | [–] similar comments (on: Ask HN: What caused the downfall of Sun Microsystem? )

They got acquired by Oracle for $7.4B

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