AnandTech Acquired by Purch

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8790/anandtech-acquired-by-purch

by uptown • 12 years ago

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JimmaDaRustla• 12 years ago

Anand should have just shut it down before leaving...

pestaa• 12 years ago

Can you elaborate?

kayoone• 12 years ago

They will most likely value the vision and concept of Anand, otherwise he would not have agreed to sell. He's not actively running it anymore, so it makes sense. The guy worked on it for 15 years and brought it up from nothing, well deserved imo.

ChuckMcM• 12 years ago

Hmm, bought by the same folks who bought Tom's hardware. So does anyone else think that Purch could buy Dr Dobbs and turn themselves into the online equivalent of Byte or PC World from the 90s?

jmulho• 12 years ago

When I saw the headline I thought "Oh no, someone bought AnandTech. It is probably going to become a slow annoying popup ad site like Tom's Hardware." Now I learn that is exactly what is going to happen.

imaginenore• 12 years ago

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Dwolb• 12 years ago

Why does this firm have to grow?

From the story, ''AnandTech has been profitable since its inception; it’s been on a great growth curve these past couple of years and we’ve always been able to do more with less, but lately there’s been an increased investment in high quality content.''

Additionally, ''...they [Purch] have a sustainable business model, are profitable and have the sort of reach AnandTech needs to really hit the next level.''

If the business is profitable and has been from its inception, it could be possible investors have had a sizeable return on investment. If this is the case and earnings are steady, it's a large risk to transfer ownership to a new stakeholder for the sake of 'growth'. For example, new ownership and more users may alienate the existing, profitable userbase.

However some web businesses may require 'user growth' as a minimum industry requirement to stay alive.

ProAm• 12 years ago

Everyone wants an high dollar exit? That's my first thought.

micv• 12 years ago

Anand has left to work at Apple. How could he hold onto ownership without everyone and their dog bringing up the obvious conflict of interest every time the site gave a good review to Apple or a bad review to one of Apple's competitors? I've already seen people complaining about it on places like Reddit.

echoless• 12 years ago

This seems like the most plausible reason. I'm curious why he didn't sell it off before he left to work at Apple. Perhaps he didn't have the deal ready yet.

charlesdm• 12 years ago

Nothing wrong with exiting. It's dangerous to start a business with the intention of never exiting.

Sometimes you just want to move on to better/bigger things.

baq• 12 years ago

if there's one thing i'll remember Anand and AnandTech for, it'll be one of the biggest driving forces behind the SSD revolution. i feel like his initial article started the ball rolling and we've all been better off as a result.

oldmanjay• 12 years ago

Anandtech will no longer be associated with dailytech, which is possibly the best news I've read all year. That site makes me shake my head so hard my neck hurts.

TheMagicHorsey• 12 years ago

Tom's Hardware is a garbage website now. Anandtech was much better. Now that the Anandtech podcast doesn't exist anymore, I have nowhere to go for my hype-free hardware newscast.

boxgamex• 12 years ago

http://pcper.com/podcast

higherpurpose• 12 years ago

Hype-free hardware podcast? Are you kidding me? There was no Anandtech podcast where Anand wouldn't hype up Intel's chips. Been hearing him for a year and half how "Haswell chips will own tablets" or something - before Haswell was out that is.

tdicola• 12 years ago

Techreport.com has a great podcast (and website in general).

AnandTech Acquired by Purch

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