Unfortunately, intentions about how you'll operate after an acquisition are just wishes.

There's a huge corporate political apparatus that just paid a lot of money for the right to implant their thumb print on how you do things. You may be able to push that day forward, but unless you wind up in charge, there's not much long-term hope.

Congratulations on the acquisition, but sorry about the acquisition.

I've been through an acquisition before. We're not going into this without having thought through the future.

https://gist.github.com/brianpattison/5463282 "Being acquired isn't part of our game plan for now. We want to build a viable business that people can use and enjoy. We have 50k apps built on our infrastructure and a huge customer base that is growing rapidly. Everyday we have more and more Basic, Pro, and Enterprise users paying us for our awesome services."

Everything in those quote is correct. It wasn't part of our game plan at the time. It was never our "game plan" in general. In fact, at the time, we were planning the strategy for a fundraise.

Said every founder of every acquired company, ever :)

Are you referring to Etacts (acquired by Salesforce)?

If so, this doesn't instill much confidence: http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/21/salesforce-buys-email-conta...

That was a talent deal top to bottom. This isn't.

lol

You no longer control your own destiny, you will do what Facebook tells you to do :-)

You might believe that, but the question is: will you have a choice?

What did your revenues look like?

This acquisition doesn't really tell us if Parse, based around a proprietary SDK, had a viable business model or not.

I can't share revenue numbers but we picked this route over multiple Series B term sheets. So, that's a measure of viability.

Back end services like these are a lot of work for limited financial reward, which is why they almost all eventually sell, if they can.