{"id":40008,"date":"2023-07-10T15:11:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T19:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40008"},"modified":"2024-01-12T14:54:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T19:54:55","slug":"evernote-acquisition-and-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/10\/evernote-acquisition-and-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Evernote Acquisition and Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joshua Bote<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Redwood City-based note-taking company — which has weathered all manner of tumult over the past decade, capped off last November by the sale of the company to Italian app maker Bending Spoons — axed nearly all its employees in the United States and Chile, according to a statement from Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari provided to SFGATE.<\/p>

Most of the company’s “operations will be transitioned to Europe,” Ferrari said in the statement, due to the “significant boost in operational efficiency that will come as a consequence of centralizing operations in Europe.”<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

The layoffs come less than six months after the company eliminated 129 workers — a decision that came as a result of the company’s unprofitability making it “unsustainable in the long term,” a spokesperson told TechCrunch<\/a> at the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Via Dare Obasanjo<\/a> (and Christina Warren<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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VC funding may not be right for every app. You don’t need $290M in funding to build a note taking app and you definitely can’t live up to the billions in valuation it implies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Martin Pilkington<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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When I was there initially there was a lot of “build new products” rather than focusing purely on the core app. Then it pivoted (correctly IMO) into build up the business tools to help bring in more revenue.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately expectations of revenue seemed to be a bit out of whack for what the initial steps were, so there were cut backs and some higher ups left.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately that led to a new CTO coming in who didn’t really know about or care for native apps, so pushed for electron rewrites, at which point some of the engineering org was let go (most of the contractors, including myself) and a lot of the rest left very soon after.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

If you’re in the market for a replacement, I know of one<\/a> that can import from Evernote<\/a> and convert your data to standard formats.<\/p>\n\n

Gleb Dolgich<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I’m using EagleFiler with Resilio Sync to mirror the entire library across all family computers and iOS devices, works like a charm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Resilio Sync<\/a> is interesting because it works peer-to-peer. You can sync very large amounts of data quickly, without actually storing it in the cloud. EagleFiler also works with<\/a> more traditional cloud services such as iCloud Drive and Dropbox.<\/p>\n\n

See also: Hacker<\/a> News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n