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Yes, we did shut down Salesforce a year ago, as we have many SaaS providers—an internal estimate is about 1,200 SaaS shut down. Not the end of Salesforce; might be the opposite. Here is what actually happened and how/why we originally intended to NOT share it publicly:

Before AWS existed, one company ran the servers for Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook's entire app ecosystem. They owned Node.js, invented containers 8 years before Docker, and Peter Thiel even backed them. Then something happened...

1/5 Thread: Frank Slootman $SNOW CEO Frank Slootman is an absolute beast! He joined Data Domain at pre-revenue stage in 2003, grew revenue from zero to $600 mn in 6 years, IPO’ed in 2007 and eventually sold it to Dell for $2.1 Bn.

hold on chris i just collected more data AOL → Bebo (2008, $850M), sold Uber → Otto (2016, ≈$680M), killed Twitter → Periscope (2015, ~$75–100M), shut down Dropbox → Mailbox (2013, ~$100M), shut down Google → Slide (2010, ~$182–200M),... See more

Blake (Boom) is getting some well-deserved hype (I can't wait for my first supersonic flight!), and lots of folks are discovering that he last worked at Groupon. Kind of surprising now but Groupon was an awesome talent magnet, and a good place to learn - we were figuring out new categories with limited... See more

With @gregisenberg team’s help on design, I’m taking down https://t.co/grC6E1NhLe which has raised $70M in venture. I’ve done all the engineering — I’m a 40+ business operator first time coder — and I’m at $5M ARR. This is happening.

Found out Product Hunt CTO didn’t know who @levelsio is so I just quit on the spot. Into the unknown we go.