<story><title>Founders’ Email to Clubhouse Employees</title><url>https://blog.clubhouse.com/april-27-2023/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bkm</author><text>Sad to hear. In an alternate timeline they would have accepted the $4B+ Twitter offer and had a nice exit along the way.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;twitter-said-to-have-held-acquisition-talks-with-clubhouse-on-potential-4b-deal&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;twitter-said-to-have-held-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The hard truth is software can&amp;#x27;t be patented and Twitter could copy the concept verbatim without paying them a penny.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xwdv</author><text>Every time I hear of another founder passing on a multi-billion dollar offer, I think back to Tom from MySpace and how he sold MySpace off for a lot of money and went on to live happily ever after. Smartest guy in the social media game.</text></comment>
<story><title>Founders’ Email to Clubhouse Employees</title><url>https://blog.clubhouse.com/april-27-2023/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bkm</author><text>Sad to hear. In an alternate timeline they would have accepted the $4B+ Twitter offer and had a nice exit along the way.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;twitter-said-to-have-held-acquisition-talks-with-clubhouse-on-potential-4b-deal&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;twitter-said-to-have-held-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The hard truth is software can&amp;#x27;t be patented and Twitter could copy the concept verbatim without paying them a penny.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sosodev</author><text>The owners would have gotten a nice exit. The employees would have probably ended up laid off anyway, right?&lt;p&gt;edit: 
actually looking at some posted salaries it seems some employees were given quite a lot of equity</text></comment>