I’m excited to share Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images today. The reason I’m excited about this acquisition is because it’s not goodbye, it’s about acceleration. This is not one of those tech acquisitions where the company is bought to be shut down. Unsplash will

The m&a march goes on …

I’m excited to share Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images today.

The reason I’m excited about this acquisition is because it’s not goodbye, it’s about acceleration.

This is not one of those tech acquisitions where the company is bought to be shut down …

so on and so forth

  • @Anachron@lemmy.ml
    9•3 years ago

    I guess it’s time to call it a RIP, they had a good run. Yes everytime some product is bought we get this “This does not mean goodbye” yet most of the times it means exactly that. It’s just marketing.

    • ufraOP
      1•3 years ago

      Yeah, I never would have guessed it (why not, not sure) but they had already had 3 rounds of VC funding per crunchbase:

      Series B $20,000,000 Aug 4, 2019

      Series A - Unsplash $10,300,000 Feb 16, 2018

      Seed Round - Unsplash Jan 1, 2013