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Ammon's previous venture was Socialcam [1], of which Wikipedia says

> Socialcam's popularity on Facebook suddenly increased in the spring of 2012, via unusually aggressive actions to induce contacts to join. It was criticized as "invasive" and a "bully" by many reviewers, for sharing what users were viewing without them realizing that that would happen.

It was only after articles like "Why I Hate Socialcam Even If It Might Be the Next Instagram"[2] (spoiler alert: it was not) started appearing that Ammon and friends sold to Autodesk for $60 million. I'm sure that investment worked out swimmingly for Autodesk. Win some, lose some, eh? But hey, at least Ammon got some resources out of it, which he went on to use to make the world a better place, and some valuable life lessons about privacy and honesty and respect, right? Right, Ammon?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialcam#Criticism

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2012/04/30/why-i-hate...

>>inimin+(OP)
Ammon and Guillaume came from Socialcam, so two-thirds of the Triplebyte founders. (Though only Ammon has showed up here, so it’s possible that Guillame doesn’t share the same opinions.)

>>inimin+(OP)
Who knew Triplebyte was another social media company in stealth mode all this time?

Brilliant launch strategy, coming out of stealth and dragging all of its users out of stealth along with it. /s

>>ss3000+46
Oh man, bait and trap? Is it so hard for a company to just have humble ambitions? Is it so bad to be a simple business that optimizes the recruitment process? Must it to be a multi billion dollar LinkedIn competitor?

>>inimin+(OP)
It was bought by _Autodesk_? Bizarre.