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UltraSane 9 hours ago

I wonder what it was like working for them.

bsimpson 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I only know them as a consumer, but IAC is truly one of the most scourge-of-the-earth companies. They're retreating to publish People Magazine now, but they monopolized concert tickets as Ticketmaster, and online dating as a rollup of every mainstream app in the last 20y. They also bought CollegeHumor and drove it into the ground/irrelevance.

They're a terrible company. It's no surprise that AskJeeves failed, but society is better for it.

IG_Semmelweiss 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

i believe they also bought vimeo and livestream.com, and proceeded to miss the boat where Youtube took off.

bonzini 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Vimeo was bought by Bending Spoons.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45197302

dchest 6 hours ago | parent [-]

That was after IAC:

"Additional acquisitions in 2006 included ShoeBuy.com,[46] which the company later sold to Jet,[47] and Connected Ventures including CollegeHumor and Vimeo".

UltraSane 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It takes some real skill to destroy a site with as much talent as CollegeHumor had

paradoxyl 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

as I recall, they hired writers and freelancers who put together broad articles that got pointed too when you asked a question, instead of trying to answer questions individually... but my memory could be off, that was 20 years ago.