[saagarjha]

I didn't find that very satisfying, unfortunately. He mentions that he's overloaded with trying to maintain the service, but then jumps immediately to looking for someone to acquire Have I Been Pwned. Couldn't he just get a few more people to help him out?

[ska]

You say that like it's a simple thing.

I don't know the details of his particular situation, but it's entirely possible to grow a small company to the point where you either need to radically change your role, or find someone to do it for you. Acquisition is one way to do the latter, although it's not always going to be appropriate.

Sometimes you can't add a few people and have the same organization.

[zelon88]

My takeaway is it kinda seems Troy wants to add A TON of people and still keep the same organization and responsibility.

Sounds to me like he's window shopping for an investor that will basically replace his engineering role with a team, pay that team, give Troy a paycheck for work he's done in the past, and let him show up every couple weeks between jetsetting to bark his vision at the new team.

I'm not shocked that it's not going well so far. HIBP is one of those unique cult-of-personality type platforms where it cannot exist in it's current form without Troy, and Troy cannot continue in his current form without HIBP. If I'm looking to buy HIBP I want to know that it's not just going to be the Troy Show 2.0 with my money instead of his.

[TheFiend7]

I get the same impression to some extent, but I'd be hardpressed to say I wouldn't cave and do the same thing to be completely honest.

Who wants to work a 9-5 their entire life? I personally don't.

[zelon88]

I agree. I was on the fence about my wording while posting because I can't say that given the opportunity I wouldn't shoot for the same outcome.

[saagarjha]

Right, but the link provided doesn't shed any light on the situation.