I'd forgotten about this. I trust none of you take/took this as hard journalism, but it's good story-telling. I do remember that particular quote, though. I'm more of a Jack Sparrow guy myself (Hurray for 3 years of costume recycling! Gotta love sequels).

Re-reading this, three years later, I'm struck by how incredibly guilty Aaron appears to feel on the night of our acquisition. More than anything else, I know I felt relieved. Make no mistake, when you're working through it, there is nothing glamorous or care-free about slogging through a startup acquisition (yet I hope you can all enjoy that suffering one day with your respective startups).