![]() VentureBeat reached out to Microsoft for comment, but at the time of writing the company had nothing to share. It’s unclear what Microsoft’s near-term plans are for Wunderlist, or whether it would really consider helping one of the original creators rescue the app from the scrap heap. So he already has a lot on his plate, but clearly Reber feels strongly enough about Wunderlist to add another project to his to-do list, so to speak. Reber is also now an investor at German VC firm called Freigeist. In the intervening years since selling their company to Microsoft, Wunderlist’s original creators - including Reber - went on to launch a new VC-backed startup called Pitch, a next-gen collaborative presentation platform. Keep the team and focus on and no one will be angry for not shutting down /27mIABncLF Still sad wants to shut down even though people still love and use it. “Still sad wants to shut down even though people still love and use it,” he said. Now, however, Reber has taken to Twitter to ask Microsoft and even CEO Satya Nadella to sell the Wunderlist app back to him. For the backgrounds, we're working on something you might like. Wunderlist will eventually retire, but we don't have a timeframe for that yet. Will these wunderkinds (I promise, this is the last one), topple over the reigning 32-year-old Microsoft Powerpoint and zoom ahead in an already over-crowded market with players like Apple Keynote, Google Slide, Pretzi, Quip Slide, etc? Teams at Notion, Superhuman, Zoom already claim to be using Pitch, it seems like the West Coast adoption is working in their favor so far.We have been part of Microsoft for the past 4 years. Since then, Reber and the team have managed to raise capital from Kevin & Mike (Instagram founders), Rahul Vohra (Superhuman CEO), Thrive Capital (invested in Nubank, Github, Lattice, Instacart, etc) amongst others. He then tagged Microsoft’s CEO and the key. Still sad Microsoft wants to shut down Wunderlist even though people still love and use it, Reber tweeted at the weekend. Wunderlist founder Christian Reber left Microsoft and started earlier in 2018 along with his ex-cofounders. The former CEO of popular to-do app Wunderlist has publicly pleaded with Microsoft to sell him back his company in despair over what the software giant has done with it. What happens when you give vengeance a productive spin? You raise $52.7 million and battle the Goliath! Talking about how I be in the project all day" - Jay Z (D.O.A) Probably, that's why Microsoft is now urging its users to migrate to the all-new branded To-Do □♂️ Its freemium model also allowed it to earn $4.99/mo or $49.55/year from users, although Wunderlist never disclosed either its paying customer base or top-line figures, thereby making it tough to gauge how it benchmarked itself against other SaaS players or its contribution to Microsoft's cloud suite revenue. Is it just me or seems like their ‘then’ portfolio just couldn't survive the next wave of productivity apps?Īt its peak, Wunderlist had 13+ million users and 1 billion to-dos registered. Wunderbar!įact: Prior to Wunderlist, Sequoia had also invested in Dropbox and. ![]() Wunderlist still happened to be the most used to-do app for me, but like every other productivity app out there - due to no fault of their own but the sheer lack of my own will-power or commitment to the mission of keeping my life categorically sorted, I ended up ditching it.Īfter having raised $35 million across 5 rounds in 3 years from the likes of Sequoia Capital, Earlybird Ventures and listed German telecom company Deutsche Telekom, Wunderlist got acquired by Microsoft in 2015 for an undisclosed figure estimated to range from $100-200 million. ![]() ![]() Not sure how many of you would have ever used the app or at least installed it, but I for one used to be an avid user. Microsoft has officially announced to shut-down Wunderlist on May 6th, 2020. ![]()
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