创始人回购公司7大热门案例

    StumbleUpon公司

    2001年，盖瑞特•坎普和杰夫•史密斯共同创立了这家公司。这家内容发现服务商开启了一个全新的理念。“我们正在努力成为您的互联网遥控器，帮助您设定接下来看什么，”坎普去年这样告诉《财富》杂志。2007年，两位创始人决定将公司以7,500万美元卖给eBay。但在经历了用户增长放缓以及越来越难以吸引优秀人才之后，坎普、史密斯和一些风投公司(包括Accel Partners和First Round Capital)买回了这家公司。据报道，交易金额仅为2,900万美元。

    StumbleUpon

    Co-founded in 2001 by Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith, the content discovery service started as a novel idea. "We were trying to be your remote control for the Web, the thing that helps you figure out what to look at next," Camp told Fortune last year. In 2007, the two decided to sell their venture to eBay for $75 million. But after user growth slowed and talent became harder to come by, Camp, Smith, and a group of venture capital firms, including Accel Partners and First Round Capital, bought the company back for a reported $29 million.