A rocket for the plan
The Acela, Amtrak's high-speed train that runs the length of the eastern seaboard (and my favorite train ride in the world), makes an interesting stop in New Haven Connecticut. As you are heading north on the train, you will spend about 5 minutes stopped there during which the train will jiggle this way and that while something is being done to it. And then, zoom! the rest of the way to Boston, the train speeds at what feels like 150% of the speed that you had coming up to New Haven.
I've never know exactly what happens at that stop but in my cartoon imagination, I've always thought that the Amtrak guys must strap some sort of rockets to the top of the train.
Five minutes ago, a press release went out that said that the Hewlett-Packard company is acquiring us to execute on their web-to-print strategy. Details of the deal were not disclosed, and I am not going to elaborate here, save for three facts:
- We (Tabblo and our investors) are very happy with the outcome
- We (Tabblo and the Tabblo community) are going to stay on board at HP executing on our combined strategy and building great products
- We (Tabblo and HP) are incredibly excited because it feels like someone is strapping that rocket to the top of the car
I think #3 is the reason why I am not simply feeling the "pheew, we're done" emotion that entrepreneurs talk about when they sell their companies. On the contrary, I'm itching to see just how fast we can make this train go now that we've got a rocket to boost the "print engine of the web" strategy. So stay tuned there.
On a more personal note, I could not be prouder to be joining HP. Growing up in Venezuela, HP and Apple were the two companies that represented everything that was great about the American entrepreneurial ethic both in terms of ingenuity and hard work. I still have the HP-29C my father gave me when we first got to the US (its programability got me into college), and have very fond memories of my struggles at Terman (the engineering building at Stanford that Hewlett and Packard gave in name of their mentor).
In short, I am really happy to be merging Tabblo's future plans with such an incredibly rich and long-lasting institution, and I'm really looking forward to what the future holds for us.
On that note, if you are from HP, please don't hesitate to drop me a note to introduce yourself at antonio -at- tabblo -dot- com.
Hi, I'm Antonio, living in Boston and working this whole net thing out...
Dominic commented, on June 25, 2008 at 8:19 p.m.:
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