Mail platforms like Sendgrid and Mailchimp are pretty standard purchases for any company that does anything with email (i.e. pretty much every real-world company).
It's crazy to me that Reddit has the same valuation. Frankly, I feel like I live on a different planet from much of the HN hype crowd sometimes.
The HN crowd is vocal about tech paradigms they are familiar with, like social media, online shopping and streaming video.
But when it comes to the actual commercial infrastructure underpinning large swathes of the digital economy, the knowledgeable ones are drowned out by the uninformed bloviators.
This is clear when you look at the comments for stories related to Google/Facebook Ads (the ad product itself), Shopify, Mailchimp/Marketo or Salesforce/Dynamics CRM.
It's crazy to me that Reddit has the same valuation. Frankly, I feel like I live on a different planet from much of the HN hype crowd sometimes.