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Probably a couple more years of good service until they get acquired. They're leaps and bounds better than the container services on AWS and Azure, solidly better than the GCP one. Seems like they could sell to get their exits before too long. Although I would be very happy if they had the pain tolerance to continue as their own company.

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> Probably a couple more years of good service until they get acquired.

(not privy to inside information) As a customer that would be a catastrophic outcome. Reckon Fly.io could avoid the temptation better than most given the founding team has already had one exit (mongohq/compose.io) and might not feel the urge to sell out again.

flyctl getting rolled into aws cli (or boto3 shudder) would definitely hurt

As an employee that would be a catastrophic outcome.

> Reckon Fly.io could avoid the temptation better than most given the founding team has already had one exit (mongohq/compose.io) and might not feel the urge to sell out again.

"Yes John, I used to think that too...but you see, if we sell then we unlock more opportunities that will be quite...nourishing...for the business."

In other words, it's really easy to avoid temptation when it's not staring you in the face.

> Probably a couple more years of good service until they get acquired.

Solid prediction. It is more likely than unlikely that this will be the outcome. Once you raise VC funds the exit clock starts ticking.

Then that clock started ticking years ago, so factor that in to your decision to do business with us --- the hour approaches, and quicker than you once thought.

I’m convinced that Cloudflare will buy them for their future container offering.

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