How the Livid.com Team Bounced Back from a Bending Spoons Acquisition

BySteve Burge

Bending Spoons is perhaps the most disliked company in tech right now. They lay off staff, raise prices, and try to extract every last dollar from the products they take over.

In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Steve Burge talks with Nick Taylor, co-founder of Livid.com. Nick and his teammates loved working for a podcasting platform called StreamYard, which had a loyal user base and a great product. But Bending Spoons took over StreamYard’s parent company, and soon they were all laid off. Nick and his colleagues got the band back together to build Livid, which is an alternative to Vimeo—another victim of a Bending Spoons acquisition.


If you’ve ever felt frustrated by sudden price hikes, disappearing support, and automated customer service from software giants, this conversation dives deep into the state of online business, the power of human-first customer service, and how to successfully bootstrap a startup in a crowded market.

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  • Steve Burge

    Steve is the founder of PublishPress. He's been working with open source software for over 20 years. Originally from the UK, he now lives in Sarasota in the USA. This profile is generated by the PublishPress Authors plugin.