This is the first time I’ve heard from people on the other side of a Bending Spoons acquisition. The Chief Technology Officer and Product Manager start talking about the experience in more detail around the six-minute mark.
At the time, we felt Bending Spoons would provide the resources and operational expertise to help us realize those ambitions at scale. What I didn’t know was how the transition would be handled.
What they didn’t tell us was the high cost of that subscription model. We had some very different ideas of what that should be, and there was a firm disagreement with Bending Spoons, and they decided to take a very different direction than what we recommended.
I was never given a clear explanation about why we were let go. Looking back, it now appears to be part of a broader acquisition strategy employed by Bending Spoons, but at the time it was a genuine shock. I think most of us were blindsided.