<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Yabood</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Oh, and Twitter launched scheduled tweets.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Tools like buffer would still exist even if every single social media network offered scheduling capabilities. The fact is, if you&amp;#x27;re a digital marketer, you&amp;#x27;re not going to waste your time jumping between networks and multiple accounts scheduling content manually.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jpeg_hero</author><text>My guess at what happened: the natural hyper growth engine ran out, they tried a bunch of things to jump start it, none of them worked, so now they are on the slow growth path.&lt;p&gt;If they were not remote-only maybe they could have pulled off the CTO&amp;#x27;s plan of hiring a bunch of traditional managers and &amp;quot;pushing&amp;quot; the company forward (probably enterprise sales), but they&amp;#x27;d have restructure the bones of the company at great expense.  The great expense part probably doesn&amp;#x27;t work, because since the sizzle is off the growth, the next VC round would be tough if not impossible to do. It would be very &amp;quot;term-y&amp;quot; and founders are already underwater enough on investor preference.&lt;p&gt;They probably made the right call of not shooting for the moon, and slowing down into a remote-only company that takes its time. Skype and boxer shorts.&lt;p&gt;But now the COO and CTO are faced with the decision of A) sitting around and riding it out at $185,000 and $182,089 per year respectively (healthy money no doubt but not DHH buy-a-racing-team like earn outs) or B) move on to the next thing while the market for vc funding is still hot and they can still get some juice from their association with buffer.&lt;p&gt;Rational decisions all around.&lt;p&gt;Oh, and Twitter launched scheduled tweets.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Change at Buffer: The Next Phase, and Why Our Co-Founder and CTO Are Moving On</title><url>https://open.buffer.com/change-at-buffer/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hkarthik</author><text>The logical exit for these smaller tools companies as growth slows is to get acqui-hired by the Twitters, Facebooks, and LinkedIns of the world.&lt;p&gt;However when your entire team is remote, that makes these companies steer clear of acquiring you since you won&amp;#x27;t fit into their culture. So they will go for your competitors with a crappier product, but a local team that they can quickly bring in onsite within a few months.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jpeg_hero</author><text>My guess at what happened: the natural hyper growth engine ran out, they tried a bunch of things to jump start it, none of them worked, so now they are on the slow growth path.&lt;p&gt;If they were not remote-only maybe they could have pulled off the CTO&amp;#x27;s plan of hiring a bunch of traditional managers and &amp;quot;pushing&amp;quot; the company forward (probably enterprise sales), but they&amp;#x27;d have restructure the bones of the company at great expense.  The great expense part probably doesn&amp;#x27;t work, because since the sizzle is off the growth, the next VC round would be tough if not impossible to do. It would be very &amp;quot;term-y&amp;quot; and founders are already underwater enough on investor preference.&lt;p&gt;They probably made the right call of not shooting for the moon, and slowing down into a remote-only company that takes its time. Skype and boxer shorts.&lt;p&gt;But now the COO and CTO are faced with the decision of A) sitting around and riding it out at $185,000 and $182,089 per year respectively (healthy money no doubt but not DHH buy-a-racing-team like earn outs) or B) move on to the next thing while the market for vc funding is still hot and they can still get some juice from their association with buffer.&lt;p&gt;Rational decisions all around.&lt;p&gt;Oh, and Twitter launched scheduled tweets.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Change at Buffer: The Next Phase, and Why Our Co-Founder and CTO Are Moving On</title><url>https://open.buffer.com/change-at-buffer/</url></story>