Congrats Kai and team.
Interested to know how this happened. Did you shopped Tinkercad before closing it down and Autocad approached only after shutdown?
Interested to know how this happened. Did you shopped Tinkercad before closing it down and Autocad approached only after shutdown?
The longer answer is that selling part of your business while continuing in a business that is in any way related is usually very challenging from a legal standpoint. The lawyers call it the "spaghetti effect", basically the IP tends to be really tangled. We had serendipitous developments a few weeks back in how Airstone is built which let us create a hermetic barrier between the Airstone and Tinkercad IP's. Before that happened we had no way of selling the IP without taking an unacceptable risk.