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Replicate is joining Cloudflare

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288 points bfirsh | 2 comments | 17 Nov 25 14:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.425s | source
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simonw ◴[17 Nov 25 15:15 UTC] No.45954300[source]▶
Congrats Ben and team!

I think this is Cloudflare's most notable acquisition yet? From Wikipedia it looks like they've previously mainly acquired smaller cybersecurity firms like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_1_Security

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echelon ◴[17 Nov 25 15:18 UTC] No.45954334[source]▶
I don't know that this was an acquisition in the sense that the Replicate investors and team made bank. I don't see a price tag, and the market for these "run model" infra companies is pretty crowded.
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1. mritchie712 ◴[17 Nov 25 16:04 UTC] No.45954831[source]▶
replicate "only" raised $50m, so I'd wager the founders, investors and early employees did well here.

If they raised $500m... then yes, the wouldn't have done so well.

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2. dagi3d ◴[17 Nov 25 19:20 UTC] No.45957056[source]▶
for investors, it will highly depend on the valuation ($350m) and liquidation preferences. so, even if they "only" raised $50m, seeing almost or none return is plausible. this also includes employees who exercised their options. another story is for the founders