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Oh no, this is sad news. I wish Isovalent had not given in to avarice, for I cannot ascribe this to anything else. They had really good engineers, with the best inhouse eBPF expertise of any company. This news is worse than CoreOS being gobbled up by RedHat.

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acquisition (or an IPO but unlikely for such a niche product company) was planned for since day one and likely part of the reason they managed to attract many of those really good engineers.

Series A $29M in 2021 by AZ and Google + Series B $40M in 2022 by, among others, Cisco itself.

Also, one of the cofounders worked at Cisco previously. I guess this is what it takes to get promoted at Cisco?

don't love this framing - capitalism operates on avarice. Every for-profit company "gives in" to it to a great extent, so we shouldn't put undue blame on isovalent for just looking out for themselves and their employees.

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