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Boris
@bmann.ca

Ok here’s the deal. For every Bending Spoons acquisition, we build an atproto version that this can never happen to again. I kind of thought we had more time, but I think we don’t.

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Bending Spoons to buy collaboration tools maker Miro for $1.36B, 90% less than its 2022 valuation

techcrunch.comBending Spoons to buy collaboration tools maker Miro for $1.36B, 90% less than its 2022 valuationBending Spoons is buying Miro for $1.36B, a huge dip in valuation for the workplace collaboration startup, which was valued at $17.5B in late 2021.

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Alana Purdy’s Husband ⁂
@tynanpurdy.com

Private equity that acquires dying companies until they’re hollow husks of their former greatness. It’s a death sentence for any decent product. They stop building features fire everybody and raise prices. Evernote, Vimeo, many such cases.

Boris
@bmann.ca

Please enjoy this thread from 5 weeks ago, when they bought Airtable.

Boris Journal Posts@bmannconsulting.com

Bending Spoons is buying Airtable - which is very bad because BS is known for buying companies & squeezing them for profit. Gordon screams & wants a local first version. Grist is an OSS alternative supported by European governments.

siliconrepublic.comBending Spoons buys Airtable for $1.2bn after IPO listingItaly’s Bending Spoons has agreed to buy US automation company Airtable in its first acquisition deal after going public last month.
Boris
@bmann.ca

Miro is a much more full featured system (let’s ignore the innovation management platform is morphed into) Licensing tldraw at the core could get you somewhere interesting.

Boris
@bmann.ca

Yes! @tldraw.com is here, as is @steveruizok.bsky.social the CEO/founder. I brought it up in relation to different options and tensions between Excalidraw (reserves per seat hosting model for themselves) vs TLDraw (pay them license fees, build commercially as you like) - plus free test licenses