Heroku (YC W08) was acquired by Salesforce all the way back in 2010 [0], a little over 15 years ago. A lot of people forget that, and assume the acquisition was somewhat recent.
Pretty illuminating reading the thread from 2010, it was big news at the time.
Pretty illuminating reading the thread from 2010, it was big news at the time.
0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1982489