On: Blake Ross on the Facebook acquisition

Ycombinator invested in Parakey? Was that public knowledge?

Maybe more suprising is that they took on so much funding already. Definitely beyond the small seed level. I wonder what kind of valuation they had at the time.

We actually took little funding at a high valuation; we just spread the love among multiple investors to benefit from different perspectives.

The high valuation's not entirely surprising. Given that, then, Facebook must've ponied up some serious f-you money/equity to get you guys to actually sell...

I must admit that one caught me by suprise.