Disagree. GP comment's language "joining coinbase was a no-brainer" was as pathetically guileless as SV gets. There is no world in which joining Coinbase was a "no-brainer," even if it was the right decision. Coinbase is a company with basically only one purpose - helping people buy and sell crypto currency. That it helps less technical people do that, or sharing a engineering manager with AWS Lambda doesn't exactly sell the idea that this is just the next obvious thing for Blockspring to do.
There was probably something wrong with the company. That's fine, that's okay, most companies fail. There's no shame in it.
We just don't enjoy being lied to badly. Lie better, at least.
I think i am looking for some level of honesty, away from the usual we are so excited narrative. Acquihires are almost always bittersweet for the founders. Excitement is not in the spirit of acquihires.
If we can be more honest with motives, it would make sv a better place, imho.
Until we don't see a balance sheet and the acquisition price and terms we cannot know how healthy your business was.
Not saying you are not right but saying that you should disclose details to back up your claims. If you can't it is better to stay silent. Partial claims only generate doubts.
From the abstract[1], the only input is selecting a few of the repeating elements, and drawing motion lines. Depth and background are detected automatically.
A common usecase on Blockspring for Google Sheets [1] is to pull data from various APIs to build lead lists for sales and recruiting.
However, combining lists is actually time consuming in spreadsheets. Lots of importing CSVs or VLookups.
So since we built a knowledge graph around what types of information APIs return, and are now able to help you collect the data you want (eg company names, locations, etc), as well as suggest enrichments based on what you have (eg go from companies -> profiles -> interests, etc).
This is great if you're a startup founder, freelancer, or starting up a new sales/recruiting process and need to quickly build your own lead lists! Let us know what you think.
