~18 years ago I owned a Belkin router that would hijack on the order of 1/10000th of plain http requests and send them to a belkin.com domain to try to get people to buy more Belkin products.
ngl I def feel a bit smug getting to pull that one out... but they used to tweet and delete mean shit at me all the time, heh. I feel like Joyent has more reason to hate me than Vultr, I never bothered Vultr!!!! :)
Yeah, jokes aside I think David Aninowsky is a super smart guy, I actually quite like him. Funnily enough, I'd even emailed them a couple years ago to pitch them letting me build this VERY idea for them, never heard back. :)
Joke aside, 300M for 10% of your company in its only ever funding round is a pretty sweet deal. It made its founder a billionaire "overnight".
He stands at a company with about the same market cap as DO, but private, with full control and very low dilution. I would consider that a win.