[pifflesnort]

Unfortunately, intentions about how you'll operate after an acquisition are just wishes.

There's a huge corporate political apparatus that just paid a lot of money for the right to implant their thumb print on how you do things. You may be able to push that day forward, but unless you wind up in charge, there's not much long-term hope.

Congratulations on the acquisition, but sorry about the acquisition.

[csmajorfive]

I've been through an acquisition before. We're not going into this without having thought through the future.

[joeybaggles]

https://gist.github.com/brianpattison/5463282 "Being acquired isn't part of our game plan for now. We want to build a viable business that people can use and enjoy. We have 50k apps built on our infrastructure and a huge customer base that is growing rapidly. Everyday we have more and more Basic, Pro, and Enterprise users paying us for our awesome services."

[csmajorfive]

Everything in those quote is correct. It wasn't part of our game plan at the time. It was never our "game plan" in general. In fact, at the time, we were planning the strategy for a fundraise.

[pifflesnort]

Said every founder of every acquired company, ever :)

Are you referring to Etacts (acquired by Salesforce)?

[mbesto]

If so, this doesn't instill much confidence: http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/21/salesforce-buys-email-conta...

[csmajorfive]

That was a talent deal top to bottom. This isn't.

[benatkin]

lol