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2025

Startup acquired

BoringRats was acquired in November 2025. The acquirer's name is under NDA, and my co-founder is available as a reference.

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The story

How it was achieved

BoringRats was acquired in November 2025 after several years of growth. The acquirer's name is under NDA, and my co-founder can act as a reference.

  • The product was bootstrapped with a small team, and I handled backend, data, and infrastructure
  • The technical foundation mattered in the acquisition: architecture that scaled, steady uptime, and product decisions backed by data
  • We kept shipping through due diligence and never missed a release

What I took from it: buyers pay for reliability and steady engineering more than for how clever the code is.

Outcome

Measurable results

  • The acquisition closed in November 2025
  • The team and product continued through the transition
  • The infrastructure serving 1M+ users was handed over cleanly

More milestones

Scaled to 1M+ users

Co-founded BoringRats and scaled its infrastructure to 1M+ active users. Acquired in November 2025.

Production ML systems

3+ years building high-throughput data pipelines and production ML infrastructure.