- notes
- {"status": "Acquired", "acquirer": "Salesforce.com", "announcement_date": "2012-05-01", "announcement_note": "TechCrunch reported acquisition confirmed May 1, 2012 after founders' blog post.", "deal_value_usd": null, "deal_value_note": "Financial terms not disclosed in contemporaneous reporting.", "deal_nature": "Acquisition confirmed; whether primarily acqui-hire vs technology integration was publicly unclear.", "post_acquisition": {"founders_joined_salesforce": true, "stypi_service_remained_live_initially": true, "technology_aftermath": "Stypi team at Salesforce rewrote underlying technology; one result was open-source Quill.", "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/01/the-team-from-yc-backed-stypi-heads-to-salesforce-to-work-on-enterprise-collaboration/", "https://www.computerworld.com/article/1433568/salesforce-com-acquires-collaboration-tool-company-stypi.html", "https://thenextweb.com/news/salesforce-continues-its-social-push-by-acquiring-yc-company-stypi", "https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/product-design/the-story-behind-linkedins-new-publishing-platform", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stypi"]}, "third_party_exit_value_estimate_usd": 2000000, "third_party_exit_value_note": "YCDB lists $2.0m exit value; primary deal terms were undisclosed.", "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/01/the-team-from-yc-backed-stypi-heads-to-salesforce-to-work-on-enterprise-collaboration/", "https://www.computerworld.com/article/1433568/salesforce-com-acquires-collaboration-tool-company-stypi.html", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/stypi", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stypi"]}
- source urls
- ["https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/01/the-team-from-yc-backed-stypi-heads-to-salesforce-to-work-on-enterprise-collaboration/", "https://www.computerworld.com/article/1433568/salesforce-com-acquires-collaboration-tool-company-stypi.html", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/stypi", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stypi"]