Our Incredible Journey

Putting the ack! in acquihire

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4 April 2024:

Today we are announcing that Mayday has been acquired. While we can’t share specifics at this time, we want to thank you all for joining us on this journey. This means that we’ll be sunsetting all Mayday products and services, on May 5, 2024

MacRumors, 9 May 2025:

Apple is legally required to report certain acquisitions to the European Commission, under the terms of the EU's Digital Markets Act. Apple acquired [Mayday]'s intellectual property, and the rights to make employment offers to certain employees, according to the European Commission.

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Humane News, 18 February 2025:

HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) announced a definitive agreement to acquire key AI capabilities from Humane, including their AI-powered platform Cosmos, highly skilled technical talent, and intellectual property with more than 300 patents and patent applications. The acquisition advances HP’s transformation into a more experience-led company.

Humane Support:

First and foremost, thank you for being an early adopter of Ai Pin. Your support, feedback, and enthusiasm have been instrumental in shaping this technology, and we are truly grateful to have had you on this journey with us. We are writing to inform you that, effective immediately, we are winding down the consumer Ai Pin as our business priorities have shifted. What This Means for You: • End of Consumer Availability: Effective immediately, new purchases of the consumer Ai Pin will be discontinued. • Device Timeline: Your Ai Pin will continue to function normally until 12pm PST on February 28, 2025. After this date, it will no longer connect to Humane’s servers, and .Center access will be fully retired. • Device Features: Your Ai Pin features will no longer include calling, messaging, Ai queries/responses, or cloud access. • Data Access: We strongly encourage you to sync your Ai Pin over Wi-Fi and download any stored pictures, videos, and notes from .Center before February 28, 2025. If you do not do this, your data will be lost upon deletion on February 28, 2025 at 12pm PST. • Data Deletion: On February 28, 2025 at 12pm PST all remaining consumer data will be permanently deleted. … Once again, thank you for being an early supporter of Ai Pin. Your engagement has meant the world to us, and we deeply appreciate the role you’ve played in our innovation journey. Warmly, The Humane Team

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January 2025:

Read.cv is joining the team at Perplexity in their mission to make the world's knowledge more accessible to everyone. … With this transition we will begin winding down operations on Read.cv and Posts on January 17th, 2025. … …we are thrilled to be joining the design and engineering team at Perplexity to continue in our shared mission of exploration and discovery. Thank you for your support over the years, and we're excited to show you what we're building soon.

(Thanks Nirawit)

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6 June 2024:

Big news! Today we are announcing that Shopify is acquiring the Threads team. There are a million feelings and thoughts from this journey, but nothing more than gratitude to all of our users and customers for building with us, our investors for their unwavering support and guidance, and all of our friends and family who put up with the late nights, canceled plans, and the general roller coaster that is startup life.

The original Threads service (a Slack-like site/app) was shut down.

(Thanks Laurence)

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29 October 2024:

We’re excited to share that Omnivore is joining forces with ElevenLabs, the leading AI audio research and technology company. … … all Omnivore users will be able to export their information from the service through November 15 2024, after which all information will be deleted.

Also, 31 October 2024:

It's been an incredible journey building Omnivore…" … We want to sincerely thank the Omnivore community for being a part of our journey.

(Thanks, Piku)

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28 August 2023:

I am thrilled to announce that the Fig team will be joining Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon has acquired Fig's technology! ... Existing users will continue to be able to use Fig and will receive ongoing support. What's more, we are now making all the paid Fig Team features completely free. New users will not be able to sign up for Fig's products right now while we focus on optimizing them for existing customers and addressing some needs identified to integrate Fig with AWS. ... We can't wait to continue to innovate with you.

5 February 2024:

Fig is sunsetting, migrate to Amazon CodeWhisperer Happy 2024! ... We will continue supporting Fig until September 1. ... To all Fig’s users, customers, and contributors, we are incredibly grateful for your feedback, contributions, and support over the years. We are thrilled to have made such an impact and we are beyond excited to continue working with you all while we continue to ship!

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18 June 2018:

We are proud to announce that Flipgrid is now a part of Microsoft, sharing a mission to empower every student to achieve more. And just like Office 365, Flipgrid is now free for all educators and students. 😮 Crazy, I know. I'm sure you have questions. Let me address a few: Flipgrid isn't going anywhere. 

June 2024:

Starting July 1, Flip will no longer be available in mobile app stores, and our web site on Flip.com will go into view-only mode. While you will no longer be able to create new groups, topics or videos after this date, you will still have access to download your Flip videos through September 30. ... There are exciting new possibilities on the horizon for educators and students, and we look forward to what the future holds!

October 2024:

While Flip apps have now been retired, educators and students can still use the Flip camera inside Microsoft Teams for Education. Please note that any existing videos can no longer be retrieved

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24 June 2024

…we’re beyond excited to share that Multi is joining OpenAI! Unfortunately, this means we’re sunsetting Multi. We’ve closed new team signups, and currently active teams will be able to use the app until July 24, 2024, after which we’ll delete all user data. … Thank you to everybody who used Multi. It was a privilege building with you, and we learnt a ton from you.

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February 2024:

We are excited to share that Skiff is joining Notion. Skiff's mission is to bring freedom to the internet by helping people collaborate and communicate with freedom and privacy. … We’re extremely excited to accelerate our mission by joining forces with Notion’s world-class team. We sincerely hope that the Skiff community will join us for this next stage of our journey. We’re pursuing big plans for making all of our online lives freer and more empowered, and these plans will carry forward directly the ambitions we’ve strived for alongside the Skiff community. As we begin to shift focus to our shared efforts with Notion, we will be closing down Skiff's product suite after a 6-month sunset period … For the next 6 months, Skiff services will continue to operate without disruption, and users can freely duplicate, migrate, or export data. You can now also set up a forwarding address to redirect mail to any other provider. … The Skiff community has lifted, inspired, and energized us at every step. We are humbled by your support and we apologize for any disappointment or inconvenience this change may cause you. We remain as committed as ever to bringing about the vision for a better internet that brought us together. Thank you for being part of the Skiff family, and we look forward to continuing to serve you with our future efforts.

(Thanks, Zephi)

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30 November 2023:

As of November 29, 2023, Headroom has been acquired by Upwork. This acquisition will help the Headroom team to expand their mission beyond video collaboration to tackle all Future of Work with the largest talent marketplace. They will continue to innovate in multimodal generative AI, affective computing, and real-time communication across all aspects of virtual collaboration to help companies and individuals be more effective and productive at what they do. Dworkz congratulates Headroom on this acquisition!

4 December 2023 (or earlier):

As of November 29, 2023 Headroom has been acquired and the Headroom product is no longer available. ‍ Thank you for believing in our vision and we appreciate your support. All of your meeting data will no longer be available and has been safely discarded.

(Thanks, Dan Mercer)

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15 November 2023:

We’re thrilled to announce that Miro has acquired Freehand. … With this acquisition, Jeff Chow, our former CEO, is moving to Miro as Chief Product and Technology Officer, along with several members of the Freehand Technical and Sales teams. In turn, I’m taking over as InVision’s CEO. 

4 January 2024:

Today I am writing to share that after careful consideration we have made the difficult decision to discontinue InVision’s design collaboration services (including prototypes, DSM, etc) at the end of 2024.  … On behalf of all InVisioners, I want to convey our appreciation for the trust and support you’ve shown us. … We’re so grateful to all of you who invested time and energy into making InVision the incredible company that it’s grown to be. 

(Thanks to JJ Celery)

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3 January 2024:

I’m excited to announce that Airplane is being acquired by Airtable, an app building platform that connects teams through shared data. We started Airplane to democratize access to software tooling, and we found Airtable to be a fantastic match to continue that mission. … As part of this transition, we will unfortunately be sunsetting the Airplane platform on March 1. We’ve closed new signups, and existing users will be receiving an email with further details. To all our users and customers: we are sincerely grateful for your interest, support, and feedback over the years. It’s been a pleasure and an honor to learn about, collaborate with, and assist your organizations. I wish you all the best in the new year.

Thanks Harry.

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2011-08-31:

Mailchimp Acquires TinyLetter We’ve acquired TinyLetter. For those of you who don’t know, TinyLetter is a beautifully simple email newsletter app created by Philip Kaplan and launched late last year. We’re pretty excited about this. Sure, we think TinyLetter fills a gap in the MailChimp offering and all that, but more importantly, we think it has the potential to fill a significant gap we’ve seen growing in the social conversation. … We’re trying really hard not to make things disruptive for existing TinyLetter users. 

2017-12-11:

MailChimp to Phase Out Its Popular TinyLetter Email Service But now TinyLetter's days as a standalone entity are numbered, [Mailchimp Co-founder and CEO Ben] Chestnut told me in October. When I met with him in Atlanta and mentioned my newsletter plans, Chestnut advised me to stick to a basic MailChimp template instead of a TinyLetter, to avoid any potential headaches when MailChimp swallows up TinyLetter.

2018-01-05:

MailChimp’s CEO clarifies: TinyLetter won’t shut down this year "We have no plans to make changes to TinyLetter in 2018. And we’ll let you know what to expect before we make any changes in the future. In the long term, we do intend to integrate TinyLetter into MailChimp. Doing this will better enable us to support the product and its users. But we’re taking it slow because we want to get it right."

2023-11-29:

Since then, our business priorities have evolved, and we've been laser focused on building tools to serve marketers and help small businesses grow. The TinyLetter community's needs have changed too, with some customers moving to Mailchimp to scale and monetize their newsletters, and some moving to alternative services that cater specifically to writers. With all of that in mind, we've made the decision to close TinyLetter and focus on our core Mailchimp product. On February 29, 2024, we will officially sunset the product and you'll no longer be able to access your TinyLetter account or letter archive. You'll still be able to log in and access your account until February 29. We know you worked hard to build your audience, so we strongly encourage you to log in before February 29 to export your subscriber list.

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31 May 2023:

We are excited to announce that we've been acquired by Stripe, a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet! Stripe will leverage Okay's technology and expertise to continue building a world-class developer experience for their engineering team. … We are immensely grateful to our customers, employees and investors. Thanks for believing in us and helping us advance the state of engineering effectiveness!

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7 March 2023:

Starting march of 2023, Legiti is shutting down its independent operations and joining forces with Signifyd to continue in the fight against transactional fraud in Latin America.

9 March 2023:

Pearson Henri

My time as a founder has been an incredible journey with a lot of ups and downs... but it's safe to say I consider myself one of the luckiest entrepreneurs out there to be wrapping up my time at Legiti with such a beautiful ribbon.

9 March 2023:

Pedro Sanzovo

Building Legiti over the last 4 years has been a great honor and a huge challenge

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Thank you so much to everyone who has been and will be part of this journey!

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29 November 2022:

A letter from our Founders: We’re joining Dropbox!

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While we’ve sold several key technology assets to Dropbox, we will continue to service our existing users and customers pursuant to the terms of their existing contracts. However, as of today, we will not allow the creation of new accounts or purchases of any new licenses.

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Thanks to our users and customers worldwide for continuously sharing their feedback and needs with us for over a decade. Thanks for using our product, for challenging us and for helping us and our company grow.

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1 December 2021, Niantic blog:

I’m excited to announce we're acquiring Lowkey, a social gaming platform that offers gamers a fun and easy way to capture and share their favorite gameplay moments. 

Lowkey website:

Lowkey is now part of Niantic Labs!

The apps are no longer available for download

(Thanks Cat333Pokémon)