LinkExchange
also referred to as: link exchange
10 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 23, 2017 by Tony Hsieh · said 23 times in 3 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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Jan 23, 2017
Jan 23, 2017
Tony Hsieh Walked Away From 1.5 Years of Unvested Microsoft Stock
“Well, in Silicon Valley, usually there's a four-year, what's known as a four-year vesting for your stock, and I'd only been there for two and a half years, so really had to stay for another year and a half after Microsoft acquired us in order to get the full a…”
Jan 23, 2017
Hsieh Sold LinkExchange Because the Company Culture Went Completely Downhill
“What a lot of people don't know is the real reason why we ended up selling the company, and the real reason was because the company culture had gone completely downhill, and I myself dreaded getting out of bed in the morning to go to my own company”
May 20, 2019
Tony Hsieh walked away from 18 months of Microsoft stock vesting
“Well, in Silicon Valley, usually there's a four-year, what's known as a four-year investing for your stock, and I'd only been there for two and a half years, so really had to stay for another year and a half after Microsoft acquired us in order to get the full…”
May 20, 2019 negative
Hsieh sold LinkExchange because its company culture had gone completely downhill
“What a lot of people don't know is the real reason why we ended up selling the company, and the real reason was because the company culture had gone completely downhill, and I myself dreaded getting out of bed in the morning to go to my own company, which is k…”
May 20, 2019 neutral
LinkExchange started by cold-emailing 100 random websites to swap banner ads
“And so we literally just contacted a hundred random websites that we thought were interesting... Basically that we're trying this thing out, and if you just put this little piece of code into your website, banners will start showing up, and in exchange, you se…”
May 20, 2019
LinkExchange grew to 100 employees and sold to Microsoft for $265 million
“Over two and a half years, we ended up growing the company, which was called Link Exchange, to about a hundred or so people. And then ultimately ended up selling the company to Microsoft in 1998 for two hundred sixty five million.”
Nov 30, 2020 positive
Hsieh: LinkExchange Grew to 100 People and Sold to Microsoft for $265M
“Yeah, over two and a half years, we ended up growing the company, which was called Link Exchange, to about a hundred or so people. And then ultimately ended up selling the company to Microsoft in 1998 for two hundred sixty five million.”
Nov 30, 2020 negative
Hsieh: Deteriorating Culture Was the Real Reason LinkExchange Was Sold
“What a lot of people don't know is the real reason why we ended up selling the company, and the real reason was because the company culture had gone completely downhill, and I myself dreaded getting out of bed in the morning to go to my own company, which is k…”
Nov 30, 2020 neutral
Hsieh: Walked Away from Unvested Stock Following Microsoft Acquisition
“Well, in Silicon Valley, usually there's a four-year, what's known as a four-year vesting for your stock, and I'd only been there for two and a half years, so really had to stay for another year and a half after Microsoft acquired us in order to get the full a…”