DocuSign acquires Chainlink thread (no no-linkers)
Here’s some of the reasoning:
-As competitors emerge Chainlink will need to scale rapidly to dominate the smart contracts market. With a two man team (or however many there are) they won’t be able to hire new devs, onboard and train them as a coherent team quickly enough. Some of DocuSign’s existing teams can easily be trained a lot sooner supporting the hundreds, wait, thousands of teams that want to connect to the mainnet. As Rory said you only get one chance at making this thing great... Going live with a small team would be too risky. -Chainlink’s anti-marketing tactic paid off. Company mergers require complex rebranding strategies. Acquiring chainlink while in infancy allows DocuSign to rebrand as needed without much difficulty. Can you imagine a company merger with a fool who shows off his brand with a sticker on a skateboard? -DocuSign worth a few billion dollars, can easily purchase a small company such as CL for several million w/o sweat. Worst case they lose a few mil and gain an experienced team while diving deeper into blockchain. Plus the added publicity will be good for PR. -Sergey building an HR dept, legal team, and other operational BS stuff needed for a global company is not in his interest, he wants to focus 100% on creating revolutionary technology and doesn’t have time to be distracted with nonsensical stuff. Additionally, Tom can serve as a good mentor/leader so he does it right. More than likely Sergey will be made VP of Blockchain Development and Fashion. -Tom says DocuSign has been “building towards this for a while”. If this is the case, it would make sense to acquire CL and make a lot more $$ than just being a partner. -DocuSign website states: “DocuSign welcomes this interest and is continuing to work at the forefront of research into commercializing smart contracts”. Sergey states they want to make CL an industry standard. MATCH MADE IN LITTLE DUCKY HEAVEN -1k eoy
HOLY SHIT CHECKED i still cant believe they titled that website "get your ducks in a row"...and this aquirement would make sense. how does chainlink buying towncrier effect how true this concept can be? I wouldnt be suprised if this happened, this would literally be the piece of news that would start singularity would it not?
This is probably the best way I can explain it. Bitcoin is kind of like a tree, right? It has rings and stuff which can't be changed and you can open it up and look at the history and agree where all the rings are. And ethereum is kind of like the leaves. They're scattered around the branches off of the tree and have veins and shit on them for writing things on. But when you write on one, it copies over to all the other leaves. Which is good because if you look at 1 leaf you'll know that it is legit if it says the same things as the rest of the leaves. So this is where Chainlink comes in. Chainlink is like a nigger jerking off on to the soil at the base of the tree. His cum is kind of like the external data which your bitcoin tree feeds to the ethereum leaves. So basically feeds the tree with stuff that it needs to give to the leaves which are asking for nutrients and stuff. Hope this helps.
DocuLink ico will be announced at the fireside chat
Charles Reyes
Yeah I can't imagine why they would have a random meeting otherwise. Tom has a billion dollar company, as cool as Sergey is I don't think he is doing this just to amuse him... He's go stuff to do. They can only meet so much to say "hey look at how cool smart contracts are"
Tyler Young
this will only happen with sufficient dubs in this thread
Nicholas Turner
Wow... What are you on? Can I get some?
Matthew Hernandez
Tom doesnt work at Docusign anymore, but maybe Chainlink is the next ‘market-bending unicorn’ his Seven Peaks Ventures is looking to find
>DocuSign founder Tom Gonser joins Seven Peaks Ventures, looks to find the next ‘market-bending unicorn’ geekwire.com/2016/tom-gosner/
Samuel Perez
Does this mean I get Docusign tokens when it forks?
Christopher Green
My fresh meme and 7's hopefully got us a good start.
Dominic Murphy
Nice try but not enough
Lincoln Ramirez
I will ask at the fireside chat if announced.
Ryan Rivera
You realize that if a company buys an open source, decentralized network, it’s no longer decentralized and therefore unable to fulfill its intended purpose, right? This line of reasoning is bearish as hell
Noah Roberts
6/10 fud.
It's the technology that's decentralized not the company. Good try tho...
Jacob Wilson
>not sure if deluded linkie or filthy pajeet pump and dumper
Easton Martinez
I’m with this guy, I don’t want CL to go the way of the Oculus Rift.
Leo Cox
I doubt this is true. Hard to imagine Sergey letting chainlink be bought by anything period
Parker Evans
Its pasta.
How would this affect the price? Instant jump? News selloff?
Liam Reyes
Sergey's next tweet: "I'm taking ChainLink public at $420 a Link"
Gabriel Ramirez
Checked
You're comparing an unoriginal VR concept that was bought by one of the filthiest companies in history to a revolutionary piece of tech joining a global leader in digital contract agreements.
2/10 fud...
Chainlink needs this thing to scale quickly like I said, or it will get swallowed by the flies.
Bentley Ramirez
Chainlink is going to be bigger than docusign.
Julian Cox
Other than it being good over all for CL as it would legitimize them quit a bit, I have no idea how it would affect the price. The problem with good blockchain companies is they are losing credibility because so many scams. Ideally trustworthy companies with reputation will pick up the actual good projects and help them move forward.
I do have a decent stack and I am done accumulating, so I hope we get lift off, but I am not holding my breath.
Jacob Young
True. Or Chainlink w/ DocuSign could big bigger than Chainlink by itself. They really need to go global with this product. DocuSign has 16 locations worldwide with millions of existing customers. I would much rather they partner up, way more likeliness of success.
Anthony Stewart
It could be a good way for Sergey to reveal the partnerships and others looking to use the network. Perhaps the big fortune 500 companies wanting to use the network don't want to say "we're relying on this 2 man start-up for the future of our data networks" but will when/if this happens. Interesting theory.
I'm gonna be at the event. Any good questions to ask if this does occur?
The reason chainlink doesnt have "partners" is because they expect to become more significant than the companies they would partner with. In a few years prople will looks back at >will docusign acquire link? like >will adobe acquire apple?
Adam Russell
Yeah it's just too hard to trust any blockchain company at the moment, that's why I am really rooting for this. It's also about dealing with all minor shit like getting listed on new exchanges, basic questions from potential business, the harassment for all of us... etc.
I don't think they would reveal any of the partnerships. And They probably would just say something like "We hope to launch Mainnet by Q2."
I will be at the event too. I haven't really thought of any good questions yet.
Asher Jenkins
I haven't heard anyone ask him directly when mainnet is going to be. I think someone asked him at the ocean protocol meet up and he gave a "soon" type response, but that was a couple months ago.
Zachary Wright
This
Grayson Young
Chekd again, fren.
I really don't think this is the case tho. There are too many other blockchain companies that can replicate CL once the mainnet is live, they need growth at the fastest rate possible. Sergey is more about doing what's right for the technology than his own ego of creating a "more valuable" company.
Blake Hughes
>Will Apple ever support Flash?
Chase Ortiz
Yeah I wouldn't ask that either. If they have a date they will share if they feel like it, otherwise It will happen when it happens, us asking isn't going to make it any sooner.
I would take an acquisition announcement over mainnet announcement too.
Leo Jenkins
ask him how many link for a lambo in a year
Nolan Moore
yea, I'd be pretty hyped with an acquisition announcement too. It seems like a win-win for both, but this is chainlink so I guess anything can happen.
is this pasta? everything you said is wrong. they're not a 2-man team. they can hire all the devs they need. tom gosner doesn't work at docusign anymore. chainlink is worth a lot more than a few million. sergey doesn't create technology directly, he's a ceo, not a dev, the logistics is his job. if he hands that to someone else he doesn't have a job. docusign is a client, chainlink will be much bigger than docusign.
Other companies don't have a clue, there is no competition. What if I told you that even biz isn't deluded enough in their expectations? Sergey et al can see what's happening, but they don't dare believe it. They keep thinking they must be missing something.
Owen Carter
DO NOT SHARE THIS INFO WITH A RANDOM MESSAGE BOARD.
THERE IS A REASON WE DELIBERATELY OBFUSCATE INFO.
Nicholas Rodriguez
If that happens I'm buying $DOCU
Asher Ramirez
Learn to read: "With a two man team (or however many there are)"
Yes, they can hire plenty of people, but having the organizational structure to create/train new valuable employees is difficult at any level, I can't imagine how tough it would in the blockchain industry. Docusign at least has preexisting teams that have experiencing working together. (Look up tuckman model if you don't see why this is important)
Tom is still a board member, owns plenty of shares in the company (I assume) and has a word in edgewise with current leadership of docusign. If I owned a bunch of stock in docusign I would do everything I could to get a blockchain company to partner with (or acquire), stocks increase all the time just based on the fact they announce something to do with the tech.
You're half right with Sergey. He is a CEO but he also wants to create something that will change the world, to him it's about having an impact, not about a having a company. He's not handing it off to anyone, he would oversee the project and have so many more resources at his disposable he would be unstoppable.
Logan Sullivan
fuggin check'd
I think we will have to agree to disagree. This was just supposed to be a hypothetical thread anyway, so you can calm down now.
Liam Evans
DocuSign isn't acquiring Chainlink. Chainlink is acquiring DocuSign.
Lincoln Hughes
gonser is not on the board nor is he a major shareholder.
Jaxon James
Remember that Chainlink has been in development for over 5 years now.
Remember Sergey himself said he signed up for this. This is 5 year's plus in the making guys.
Brandon Butler
Hi Tom
Cooper Adams
Dude...
Why are you mentioning made up wishful thinking bullshit as if it was a fact?
>Tom is still a board member, owns plenty of shares in the company (I assume) and has a word in edgewise with current leadership of docusign. If I owned a bunch of stock in docusign I would do everything I could to get a blockchain company to partner with (or acquire)
>You're half right with Sergey. He is a CEO but he also wants to create something that will change the world, to him it's about having an impact, not about a having a company.
