Comment on Ask HN: Do dead YC companies sell their brands/IP?parentComments−petesergeant2yFeels like there’s an opportunity there for a business that will maximise dead tech startup IP−dredmorbius2yThat used to be Computer Associates, now CA Technologies, owned by Broadcom:<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CA_Technologies>"Where technology goes to die" was the verbatim description I'd heard of it directly from someone whose former startup had been acquired by them. That's a reasonably widely-held reputation:<https://www.theregister.com/2018/07/12/broadcom_ca_technolog...>−delfinom2yFunny because Broadcom is where IP goes to die in general lololol.−dredmorbius2yIt does seem a poetic fit.
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Feels like there’s an opportunity there for a business that will maximise dead tech startup IP
That used to be Computer Associates, now CA Technologies, owned by Broadcom:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CA_Technologies>
"Where technology goes to die" was the verbatim description I'd heard of it directly from someone whose former startup had been acquired by them. That's a reasonably widely-held reputation:
<https://www.theregister.com/2018/07/12/broadcom_ca_technolog...>
Funny because Broadcom is where IP goes to die in general lololol.
It does seem a poetic fit.