alt Hacker NewsMore like following the Computer Associates model, a tale as old as time. Find a mature platform with a captive user population with a fat, lazy management team, buy them out, slash headcount, and open the taps. Someone in the thread mentioned Atlassian, that is a perfect target for this kind of strategy.
Atlassian is too large. Also atlassian has been doing the same growing by acquisition for a long while themselves.