Tag: Chris Alden

Rojo: How Far Apart?

Tags: Rojo + Six Apart + Chris Alden

david
Posted by david 2 years 2 months ago

The site rojo.com has been unavailable for the last few days. No-one seems to be blogging about the days-long downtime.

ChangingWay says: I knew that Six Apart didn’t plan to keep Rojo, but I was hoping that 6A would at least keep Rojo running."

Chris Alden says the company is migrating servers and doing an upgrade which has taken a lot longer than it should. So its in a coma, not dead.

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Six Apart Buys Rojo

Tags: Six Apart + Rojo + Chris Alden + Kevin Burton + Acquisition + TPG Ventures + BV Capital + Marc Andreessen + Ron Conway

Kevom
Posted by Kevom 2 years 3 months ago; via techcrunch.com/2006/09/06...

Blogging company Six Apart will soon announce it has purchased Rojo, the web-based feed reader, for undisclosed terms.

TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington broke the news this morning; he guesses Six Apart paid $5 million.

This deal brings to a close the long saga of the Rojo story. The company was founded in June 2003, launched in October 2004 and had a stellar team of investors including TPG Ventures, BV Capital, Marc Andreessen and Ron Conway. Rojo consistently released excellent products and has a loyal core user base. Rojo had a...

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