Comment by usrusr
4 days ago
Founder(s) sold to Bendinggspoons who specialize in the kind of takeover where the buyer stops all development and tries to keep the money inflow from a service running with minimal maintenance crew. Evernote is the most famous example I think.
Apparently 80% are already gone:
https://escapecollective.com/how-komoot-lost-its-way/
(paywalled, but I think it's the definitive aftermath writeup, as opposed to all the older news that stop at speculating about layoffs that had not happened yet)
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