







I've sold out
Is Substack for sellouts?
A recording from Angela Hollowell's live video

I Sold My Startup for $25.5 Million. Here’s How I Did It.
I sold my startup for $25.5 million on Monday just after 2:23 p.m. Pacific Time.

Why I turned down $500K, Pissed off my investors, and Shut down my startup
Why I turned down $500K, Pissed off my investors, and Shut down my startup I just did what no startup founder is ever supposed to do. I gave up. It wasn’t even one of those glorious “fail fast …

Farewell Stack Exchange
I am no longer a part of Stack Exchange. I still have much literal and figurative stock in the success of Stack Exchange, of course, but as of March 1st I will no longer be part of the day to day operations of the company, or the Stack Exchange sites,

Life for Sale
Life for Sale is a 1968 novel by Yukio Mishima. It was first serialised in twenty-one parts in the weekly magazine Weekly Playboy between 21 May 1968 and 8 October 1968. It was published in hardcover format by Shueisha on 25 December 1968. It was published in paperback by Chikuma Bunko on 24 February 1998. It was translated into English by Stephen Dodd and published in paperback in the United Kingdom by Penguin Classics on 1 August 2019. The English translation received a wider release in paperback by Vintage International on 21 April 2020.

Why Questions Matter in Selling – A Synopsis of SPIN Selling by Richard Young - SalesPOP!
Neil Rackham's SPIN Selling is a game changing book. Here are his top sales techniques in a "cheatsheet" summary -- Get started immediately.

Selling Out and the Death of Hacker Culture
Selling Out and the Death of Hacker Culture We’ve sold each other for profit and lost what makes us happy. Part I. The very first hackathon I attended was back in high school. It consisted of me, a …
We Spent $3.3M Buying Out Investors: Why and How We Did It
Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million – about half of all the cash we had in the bank – to buy out our main venture capital (VC) investors. Here is the full journey of how we decided on this path for the company, including all the details and numbers involved in carrying out a stock buyback.

Exclusive | Blackstone to Grant Equity to Most Employees in Future U.S. Buyouts
The private-equity firm’s plan is part of a broader movement in the buyout industry to expand ownership beyond management ranks.
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Staying in the game
I’m four months into my interim CEO role at Bluesky, and it’s time for an update. Most importantly, as of today, the interim part of the title is gone. I’m loving the mission and …

There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Staying in the game I'm four months into my interim CEO role at Bluesky, and it's time for an update. Most importantly, as of today, the interim part of the title is gone. I'm... toni.org/2026/07/10/staying-in-the-gam…
Staying in the game
toni.orgHey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵