Joe Long claims Broadloom has not modernized RollMaster since acquiring it
Joe Long · Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team · Sep 2, 2022 · at 12:00
Joe Long critiques M&A consolidators in flooring tech, arguing that Broadloom merely repackages legacy on-prem software rather than rebuilding it.
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“That's what Rollmaster, Rollmaster got bought by Broadloom, and they're not really changing it. They're talking about rolling out, you know, an ERP system in a year or two, but they've just taken the same on-prem Windows-based software that looks like it's from the 19 nineties, and they've packaged it with a couple of other things.”
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