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simonw on May 31, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: AdGrok is joining Twitter

"AdGrok is a departure from this logic. Why did Twitter buy AdGrok (other then the stellar team)?"

Probably for the stellar team.

adw on May 31, 2011 [–]

As they did with DabbleDB and Values of N (I Want Sandy). Both cool products, neither had overwhelming traction, both shut down when the deal closed.

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