Being proud and being acquired aren’t mutually exclusive things. You can be proud of projects that are not viable financially. They are proud of what they built and are also moving to a place where they can continue building more.
Continuing to struggle for money isn’t a requirement for building cool stuff.
Warms my heart to learn their families will finally be able to afford nutritious meals, put clothes on their backs and maybe even afford a bike to go to school rather than walking 2h everyday. We need more uplifting stories like this one. Thank you salesforce.
Jokes aside though, many (most?) acquihires are for very little $. Often just founders not being able to continue and just wanting an honorable exit + guaranteed jobs for their teams.
A valuable skill as entrepreneurs, is to know when to stop and move on. Recognizing what you built may not be viable financially long term or is no longer a fit for the market and then making adjustments is what good entrepreneurs do. Sometimes it means shutting shop, while other times it means getting acquired and refocusing on the path forward.
> it has been our mission to forever protect our families from any financial misfortune. We hoped we could help the world make time for what matters along the way, but ultimately money comes first.
There's nothing wrong with selling out and getting rich. There's no need to lie about it.
I think this is the first time I've seen a cookies pop-up that only offered an "Allow All" option and nothing else. Accept our cookies or go away, I guess.
Other than directly cancelling a competing product, it's usually to acquire the staff. Bit like the football transfer market, but you can buy Marcus Rashford separately without having to buy the whole of Man U.
> Any Smart Hold events created by Clockwise (such as Focus Time, Travel Time, Meeting Breaks, and Personal Calendar synced events) will be removed from your calendar. Flexible Meetings will stop moving and the green Clockwise sparkle will be removed.
> it has been our mission to help the world make time for what matters. We've built a business to be proud of
There must be a lot of pride and meaning in being run over by Saleforce's money truck.
Being proud and being acquired aren’t mutually exclusive things. You can be proud of projects that are not viable financially. They are proud of what they built and are also moving to a place where they can continue building more.
Continuing to struggle for money isn’t a requirement for building cool stuff.
> There must be a lot of pride and meaning in being run over by Saleforce's money truck.
They probably don't have much choice and Salesfore needs people who have built and launched products (I don't have any info, just a guess).
> There must be a lot of pride and meaning in being run over by Saleforce's money truck.
Worst. Isekai. Idea. Ever.
They have families to feed. This might forever protect their families from any financial misfortune. Any sane person would do the same. I would.
Warms my heart to learn their families will finally be able to afford nutritious meals, put clothes on their backs and maybe even afford a bike to go to school rather than walking 2h everyday. We need more uplifting stories like this one. Thank you salesforce.
Jokes aside though, many (most?) acquihires are for very little $. Often just founders not being able to continue and just wanting an honorable exit + guaranteed jobs for their teams.
A valuable skill as entrepreneurs, is to know when to stop and move on. Recognizing what you built may not be viable financially long term or is no longer a fit for the market and then making adjustments is what good entrepreneurs do. Sometimes it means shutting shop, while other times it means getting acquired and refocusing on the path forward.
Then don't lie! Maybe instead they could say:
> it has been our mission to forever protect our families from any financial misfortune. We hoped we could help the world make time for what matters along the way, but ultimately money comes first.
There's nothing wrong with selling out and getting rich. There's no need to lie about it.
Well, that might have never happened. And don't we all do it for our families primarily.
I do it for my bookie
Sure but they dont have to act all insufferable about it lmao. Just say it was the best outcome not a bunch of bullshit
seems like a rather short time frame considering they are just deleting the data, links, calendar events, past invoices, etc.?
hopefully no one paying for their service decided to take a 1 week vacation starting tomorrow.
Salesforce seems to be doing a shutdown of many of their "pre-AI" products.[1]
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/controlled-demolition-salesfo...
I think this is the first time I've seen a cookies pop-up that only offered an "Allow All" option and nothing else. Accept our cookies or go away, I guess.
Why would a company acquire the other one just to shut it down?
Other than directly cancelling a competing product, it's usually to acquire the staff. Bit like the football transfer market, but you can buy Marcus Rashford separately without having to buy the whole of Man U.
Yea, until they leave as soon as they can because working at Salesforce is nothing like a startup
These acquihires seem so ineffective to me unless the acquiring company is truly attractive to the acquirees talent.
Interesting tool, but it seems to be more of a feature than a product.
speaking of, Dropbox bought a similar product a couple of years ago https://reclaim.ai/
speaking of, Reclaim is the company TFA recommends Clockwise customers migrate to
Now a feature of Salesforce :)
> Any Smart Hold events created by Clockwise (such as Focus Time, Travel Time, Meeting Breaks, and Personal Calendar synced events) will be removed from your calendar. Flexible Meetings will stop moving and the green Clockwise sparkle will be removed.
Doesn't really sound like it.