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djha-skin on Aug 7, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7B

This is huge! Congratulations to a Ancestry! This is one of a few billion-dollar-plus exits of a startup company in Utah over the past 2 years, with others such as Qualtrics and PluralSight also coming to mind. We're starting to see more unicorns come out of Utah. As someone who lives in Utah, that's great!

jakebol on Aug 7, 2020 | [–]

How is ancestry.com a startup at this point? It was founded in 1996.

nhumrich on Aug 7, 2020 | | [–]

I wouldn't really call this an "exit". They already IPOd back in 2012, and then went private after that.

zwily on Aug 7, 2020 | [–]

Don’t forget Instructure: acquired this year for $2B by Thoma Bravo.

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