Interview: Heroku Founder Talks About $250M Salesforce Acquisition

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/01/31/interview-heroku-founder-talks-about-250m-salesforce-acquisition/

by RichardPrice • 15 years ago

127 7 15 years ago

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!!!

zaidf• 15 years ago

IM RICH BIOTCH

That's the assumed part.

mkramlich• 15 years ago

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.

rmason• 15 years ago

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.

dralison• 15 years ago

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.

justinsb• 15 years ago

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.

usaar333• 15 years ago

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

Interview: Heroku Founder Talks About $250M Salesforce Acquisition

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