Microsoft Buys Wunderlist

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jun 6, 2015 at 05:01 AM

Donovan wrote:
>On the subject of buying to kill it. The example that bugs me to this
>day is the Facebook purchase of drop.io (anybody remember that great
>file drop, storage, note-taking, notes-by-phone service?).

Yes we do; and the way it was discontinued:
http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/2111

>Facebook
>couldn’t hire Zuckerberg buddy Sam Lessin for some weird reason, so
>Zuckerberg bought the company (drop.io), brought Sam aboard as a
>Facebook VP, and shut-down the service. He only wanted Sam. Lessin
>stayed about four years and left - with a bundle of money from the
>drop.io sale. I miss it to this day.

I didn’t know this background. Makes the disregard to users even more prominent.