ROFL @edvin where you not working on the guide? 😇

Haha, nah, I'm at work, creating EPP systems right now. Needed a breather.

Also dealing with the annual "I wanna buy your company" request 🙂

just say "sure put 999.000.000.000$ on my account by tomorrow"

I tried something like that, just a tad lower number. This guy wasn't scared though.. made an interesting counter offer even 🙂 But these things never work out. Have done it a million times. I guess I'm too greedy 🙂

I was talking to Notch a year after he sold minecraft

GoldMineCraft(tm)

he was not the happiest person he expected to be, too much people asking for funds and he felt a bit directionless

lost contact after that (personal life kicking up some storms)

@ron indeed

Haha, I won't get that much money anyways 🙂

@edvin I wouldn't call that greed but just rather experience.

"a realistic view of the actual value"

@thomasnield Hehe 🙂 The thing is that we have systems and experience with consolidating hosting businesses that would be valuable to a large hosting company. So we provide more value than just what our customers are worth. That's what has been hard to "sell" traditionally. But these guys actually get it.

Have you heard the story about the guy who created the Slither.io app? He brings in $100,000 a day from ad revenues. However he's eager to sell because it's stressful keeping his server online. He's trying to not migrate to AWS to keep costs down.

sometimes (like the last few weeks) I am almost jealous of people that are their own boss

I feel like killing my client very slowly, beginning with kneecapping him

I think a lot of devs wish about becoming their own boss at times.

I friend of mine that I went to school with went to the US to play with some mobile ad thing. They just sold the company to Telenor for 3 billion NOK: http://e24.no/boers-og-finans/telenor/telenor-blar-opp-tre-milliarder-for-markedsfoerings-og-teknologiselskap/23606974

I guess an english link would be better: https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/01/telenor-jumps-into-ad-tech-acquires-tapad-for-360m/

USD 360m 🙂

One day I heard he had started playing with Scala to scale some ad server thing they were working on and then this.. Crazy

Damn! That's crazy.

Data science is probably where a lot of the next major Innovations are going to happen. People usually apply it to marketing (like this) and consumer habits. But there is an enormous number of applications that it can be specialized for but have not been done yet.

Absolutely

Kudos to your friend though, success stories like that don't happen very often

He's truly one of a kind.

@edvin always awesome to watch luck and talent mix together perfectly.

It sounds like with your company the value is in the employees just as much as the clients