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Ok here’s the deal. For every Bending Spoons acquisition, we build an atproto version that this can never happen to again. I kind of thought we had more time, but I think we don’t.

Private equity that acquires dying companies until they’re hollow husks of their former greatness. It’s a death sentence for any decent product. They stop building features fire everybody and raise prices. Evernote, Vimeo, many such cases.

Please enjoy this thread from 5 weeks ago, when they bought Airtable.

Boris Journal Posts@bmannconsulting.com

Bending Spoons is buying Airtable - which is very bad because BS is known for buying companies & squeezing them for profit. Gordon screams & wants a local first version. Grist is an OSS alternative supported by European governments.

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