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by michaelwww 4819 days ago
The "older doofuses who didn’t understand the Web" seemed to have done pretty well with CollegeHumor and Vimeo without Jake. If they had run them into the ground, I imagine he'd write an article about how being acquired is always success.
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The existing businesses were nurtured and optimized reasonably well. I was lamenting the loss of the creative spirit that generated those two businesses in the first place -- the larger, more valuable core of the company.
I kid because the title seems designed to be provocative. It's not always failure to sell out. Quite the opposite in my case, but I hear you. You "sold out" and lost something in the process. They have been good stewards of Vimeo. It's one of the quality sites on the web, so I wouldn't fret too much. You created something wonderful. That's more than most people.