After all, for some, the point of creating a startup is to eventually have the product or service sold for squillions, is it not? And if I were a startup who created a product so successful that someone was willing to give me literal millions for it, I’d also have done what the Wunderlist founders did.

I get it, if I were a tech heavyweight with lots of cash and wanted to eliminate the competition, I’d have done just the same. The popular list and task management app was acquired by Microsoft in 2015 and while many were hoping that the tech giant would somehow incorporate Wunderlist into their Office repertoire, it seems that, after years of a “will they? Won’t they” scenario, they’ve decided to shut it down. It had 13 million users and more than 1 billion to-dos at the time of the acquisition. What’s significant about this shutdown-compared to other app shutdowns-is that Wunderlist’s discontinuation isn’t because of a decline in sales or poor user count. As you may have already heard, Wunderlist is due to shutdown on the 6th of May, 2020.

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