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RIP Say Media (/ Six Apart / Videoegg). We used to work in that building.

Did Say Media finally kick the bucket? I remember around four or five years ago they stopped paying publishers and had to make payments with a cash flow injection. Hundreds of thousands later they made everyone whole, but damn. Specialized ad industry did not treat them well.

Pretty sure they ultimately got acquired at a heavy discount. I left before that though -- around the period you describe.

Their web site is still around with a 2019 copyright date, so they appear to be hanging on. I used to work at the building just north of that one (at Realm, the mobile database company, which was located between Say and Docker's offices), and I used to be a big fan of Movable Type, so I was always sort of curious about them.

Say's web site, incidentally, now lists their SF office as 442 Post Street, Suite 901. From their job listings, I get the impression that most of the action is in the NYC and the Portland offices now, though.

Are other startups in that building now? I thought I saw a few when I last passed by it.

Quite a few were last time I checked. Say went from filling up that entire building, to renting out the basement, to renting out the upper floors, and then moving into the basement X(

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