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Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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520 points kevinyew | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 12:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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thor-rodrigues ◴[04 Sep 25 16:27 UTC] No.45129033[source]▶
I’m not sure whether I find it more worrisome or fascinating that we live in a world where a company that, as far as I know, has never generated a single dollar in revenue has managed to exist for over five years, employ more than 100 people, and still get acquired for this amount.

This isn’t criticism or sarcasm — I’m genuinely impressed, but also very curious about the rationale behind it.

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colelyman ◴[04 Sep 25 16:41 UTC] No.45129191[source]▶
Agreed, to make it even more interesting Browser Company discontinued Arc earlier this year. So not only did they do all of the things OP listed, but also didn't have a current product when acquired.
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ar_lan ◴[04 Sep 25 17:56 UTC] No.45130146[source]▶
They have "Dia" - which is Chrome + AI chat?

https://www.diabrowser.com/

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1. jrflowers ◴[04 Sep 25 19:29 UTC] No.45131286[source]▶
When I saw that domain my first thought was it looks like they came up with the name by combining “diabetes” with “browser”