Radfar: Oracle partnered with AddThis three times before buying it
Hooman Radfar · Collective Raises $50m to Take on Rippling, ZenBusiness. $1m MRR Next? · Mar 1, 2023 · at 2:46
Hooman Radfar discusses Oracle's acquisition of his previous startup, AddThis, explaining how their commercial partnership led to an acquisition.
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“Oracle had partnered with us across, I think, three different opportunities. And then they'd concluded as a result of those partnerships that it was more cost effective for them to, you know, buy us.”
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