[ianwalter]

Isn't Shadow basically going out of business? Pre-orders aren't estimated to be available until October and I thought I read somewhere that they are selling off pieces of the business.

[steeve]

JB Kempf (of VLC) has been CTO for a few months. He has submitted an offer to buy back the company with Xavier Niel (telco billionaire).

Their tech is incredible, by far the best performing IMHO.

[bleuarff]

There are 2 competing offers to buy the company, as I know of. One from OVH founder Octave Klaba, the other from JB Kempf, of VLC fame. So no, I don't think it should go out of business - in the short term.

[np32]

From JB Kempf of VLC, and supported by Xavier Niel who is a huge VC in France and founder of Free, which totally disrupted the ISP mafia in France.

This video is a great interview of JB + story of Shadow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0c1CJT8X8A&t=20s

[bleuarff]

Thanks for the additional info, I had forgotten Niel was the backer.

[ianwalter]

Thanks for clarifying. Seems like a lot of companies in this space (at least the ones geared towards gaming) have had to pivot.

[airstrike]

Looks like JB Kempf is the Shadow CTO

It's one great piece of tech, so I'm not surprised he'd be interested in trying to turn it around