[dsiroker]

(Co-founder of Optimizely here) Congrats! It was fun competing with you

[paraschopra]

Dan, thank you! I has been fun competing with you.

I remember the golden days :)

I've been following your journey post Optimizely! Hope your new ventures turn out to be equally fun and fulfilling.

[murukesh_s]

I think it was a time when bootstrapping was a thing.. I feel its scary for new startups to bootstrap since the last decade with huge fundings, especially with funding in billions becoming a normal with the ongoing AI craze.

https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/largest-ai-startup-funding-de...

[waonderer]

I think that's more skewed towards the AI startups. Other startups have rather seen a dip in recent times, at least in India.

[abhimanyue1998]

AI inference is expensive, hence, funding is needed. In future, when AI infra becomes cheaper, we will see more bootstrapped AI startups too.

[sskates]

Congrats to you both!! Paras- you guys were always one of the ones we looked up to when starting Amplitude way back in 2012.

[paraschopra]

Thanks Spencer! You've built an amazing product, we're hugely inspired by Amplitude.

[throwaway638637]

Optimizely as in Episerver?? I thought Optimizely was Episerver's rebrand.

[jeroen]

Episerver bought Optimizely and then took the name.

[throwaway638637]

Oh what a strange decision. But that makes more sense than yhe reverse.

[peterisdirsa]

Why "was"?

[statictype]

Optimizely also sold to private equity many years ago. Presumably the founderts aren't there any more.