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SlideShare is dead. Long live SlideShare!
Who remembers 2012? Those were the days, my friend! Linkedin just bought the homegrown SlideShare to much fanfare and $119 Million – six years after it was born – in the by lanes of outer Delhi.
Slideshare was a Disneyland for students and employees. Just register and enjoy the unlimited free ride. No paywall, pop-ups, restrictions, conditional premium features, or email spams. Nothing. A true, open platform without any small print where individuals and agencies shared the best they got.
It was a union of diverse people. A beautiful, bright, colorful world-fair where Fortune 10 lived together with the roof-less entrepreneurs; where top-notch UX blended with the eyesores, where STEM met A to gather the STEAM, I remember it all.
God, what all the content people shared! The deepest, the widest; unheard, unimaginable otherwise from science, culture, technology, emerging domains, you name it, it’s all there! Ready to be consumed. I wonder, what impact this culture of giving collectively meant to its consumers, especially in a tightly competitive society like ours.
Now, that Slideshare has a new home, hope things get brighter once again after the brief lull, mainly on the product front to script a new history. And, a new breed of Turks flocks to it as we did once.