Snowflake did the biggest epic fail of the ZIRP era. They bought streamlit (a python GUI front end for ML demos) for 800 MILLION dollars.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/02/snowflake-acquires-streaml...
Huggingface bought its biggest competitor, Gradio (still used more than Streamlit) for an "undisclosed" amount of money a year or so before hand. I'd wager HF paid on the orders of 1-5 million.
I doubt Gradio is used more than streamlit. And so does Google [1]
I know that's not exact, but if more people used Gradio, you'd expect at least a somewhat similar number of people searching for it online. Gradio is not even in the same ballpark as Streamlit here.
[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-d&q=%2...
I don't know what to say except that the overwhelming majority of HF spaces are made as Gradio demos and that gradio's whole design makes it far easier to do async things unrelated to reloading the webpage - which is a huge thing for ML/AI demos.
I don't claim you're wrong, but I claim that gradio is far more effectively profitable to know than streamlit is - i.e. Gradio demos are used far more for a top AI paper demo (i.e. NeurIPS system demos) than Streamlit is.
That is amazing! What a coup. I thought streamlit was pretty cool, but surely it wasn't $800m cool.
Salesforce purchased Mulesoft for $6.5 billion. Mulesoft was so successful they decided to buy a different ETL tool Informatica. But the deal fell through. Mulesoft has about 1500 clients vs 9500 clients for Informatica.
Comparing a disclosed sale price to an unknown theoretical sale price is a bit unfair though. Maybe it was 801 million.
No way, HF didn't have anywhere near that kind of money when they acquired Gradio. I think they did it back in 2020 or 2019. I know for a fact it was a tiny sum.