Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by dsiroker 515 days ago
(Co-founder of Optimizely here) Congrats! It was fun competing with you
3 comments

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.

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...

I think that's more skewed towards the AI startups. Other startups have rather seen a dip in recent times, at least in India.
AI inference is expensive, hence, funding is needed. In future, when AI infra becomes cheaper, we will see more bootstrapped AI startups too.
Congrats to you both!! Paras- you guys were always one of the ones we looked up to when starting Amplitude way back in 2012.
Thanks Spencer! You've built an amazing product, we're hugely inspired by Amplitude.
Optimizely as in Episerver?? I thought Optimizely was Episerver's rebrand.
Episerver bought Optimizely and then took the name.
Oh what a strange decision. But that makes more sense than yhe reverse.
Why "was"?
Optimizely also sold to private equity many years ago. Presumably the founderts aren't there any more.