You are saying the plan was to buy a "price-beating competitor", invest in them for 16 years, and then finally pull the rug out now?
replyThey’re not competition if you own them! Typepad continued for over a decade after it was purchased. Auth0 is still in maintenance mode afaik. It can last as long as revenue pays for the FTE to maintain it, or until corporate reallocated the FTE to higher revenue-per-FTE-hour opportunities.
replyReminds me of https://youtu.be/T2BY8zZ1CTM?si=XDroWqVD-pElN9si
replyFYI, you forgot to remove the &si= tracking cookie from your derogatory comment that uniquely identifies you. As a former Salesforce/Heroku employee and so presumably familiar with Heroku’s treatment within the megacorp for at least some of (checks notes) the past sixteen years, do you have anything relevant to contribute to this post?
replythat was great!
replyAbsolutely none of this is true. What was the PaaS Heroku was apparently beating at the time of the acquisition?
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