6 ms·
Isn't Bending Spoons the one who acquired Vimeo then fired all but a skeleton staff?
by nness 7d ago
Isn't Bending Spoons the one who acquired Vimeo then fired all but a skeleton staff?
- KellyCriterion 7d ago....yes, and not only at Vimeo with this playbook....
- The_Blade 7d agoand others like Aol. and Eventbrite, but where it really hit me was Evernote. i tried to cancel and then Bending Spoons (BS for short) tried to charge me several times at a subscription 5 times the cost. i think something about pre-auth tokens across the sea on a PayPal account almost old enough to run for the House of Representatives might have had something to do with it, but IIRC BS has already had cash money rulings against it for shady-to-illegal billing practices its reward? successful IPO. here is an Economist article from a couple months ago: https://www.economist.com/business/2026/07/01/can-bending-spoons-thrive-as-a-listed-company https://www.economist.com/business/2026/07/01/can-bending-sp...