How a cold email to Andy Rubin led to a $100M+ Google acquisition offer for Path
DesireeCachette · x · 2026-10-14
Former Path employee mvanhorn recounts on the last30days pod how he cold-emailed Andy Rubin by guessing his address, used boss Kevin Rose to land a Digg meeting, and how that thread eventually led Google — with Rubin name-dropping Larry Page and Vic Gundotra — to offer over $100M for Path, which was turned down.
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