Interview: Heroku Founder Talks About $250M Salesforce Acquisition

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127 points·RichardPrice··7 comments

Sorry if I'm being presumptuous, but I hate it when founders say with Salesforce in particular we felt that we would have an opportunity to make a larger impact than what we might be able to have done independently instead of IM RICH BIOTCH!!!

IM RICH BIOTCH

That's the assumed part.

agreed. whenever I see that, I always sort of mentally pipe it to /dev/nul. it's become like boilerplate. it's unfortunate people can't say what they really think. reminds me of the whole "press release" paradigm, where, no matter what has happened, it's always spun as a Good Thing, regardless of whether it actually is or will be, or not.

Sorry but I think the guy sounded sincere. He referenced other big companies that had wanted to buy them. If they'd held an auction I am sure they could have gotten more cash if money was all that mattered to them.

Unless the news comes out that they were being pressured by their VC's to sell I think its correct to assume they figured that selling to SalesForce would help them advance their goals faster.

I dunno. I think this was all about the money. Anyone that's spent ANY time with SFDC knows it's not a great company to deal with as an outside developer.

I agree that the developer experience with Salesforce is poor. But this means that Heroku now has the opportunity to make that developer experience _much_ better.

I doubt money was their only concern, but I'd be amazed if they found others bidding over $200M

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