While I am really excited that these guys had an exit -- founders who make really great products deserve to get paid -- I hope that this doesn't mean that Rapporative will eventually be shut down or merged with LinkedIn in some horrible way that removes it from my inbox. I'm not sure if I can keep people straight without it.
Rapporative does the same thing, but in my inbox.
Personally, I have no intention of doing that, and I will miss your functionality.
I really liked when Conrad from the support them explained an issue I had regarding merged accounts by providing the following graph, I did mention that I was a CS Major (hope the spacing lines up):
email1@gmail.com (user, merged) <--.
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`-> email2@anotherdomain.tld (user, merged) \
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`-> email3@domainexample.tld (user, merged)
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`-> email4@finaldomain.tld (user)
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|`-> alias1@finaldomain.tld
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|`-> alias2@finaldomain.tld
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`-> alias3@finaldomain.tldFirst time I remember seeing that style. Now I wanna read more text-tree graphing everywhere.
$1 million raised, 2 years of work and $15 million cash exit. The founders have obviously done very well in this exit.
Great story. Great product. Well done!
What are your next steps?
edit: Admittedly, the tense of the headline was different.
I'm very envious of your success. Looking forward to running into you guys one day, like you said, its a small world.