![]() ![]() Libby Clark will be vice president of strategy and Ben Ball will continue to work with sponsors as director of sales and account management. The editorial team will be led by Joab Jackson, managing editor, with considerable help from Michelle Maher, our assistant editor. The New Stack team is in many ways why we are here today. Darryl has more than 20 years of news experience as a technology journalist covering the developer space, most recently at Tech Target. Last month, we also hired Darryl Taft as news editor. She will work with writers to better our feature stories. Heather leads our ebook development and other in-depth coverage. Heather Joslyn joined us as features editor She was previously editor-in-chief at Container Solutions, and a senior editor at the Chronicle of Philanthropy. And this past month, we also made two more instrumental hires. Colleen joined us from the Quantitative Imaging Systems (Qi), a biotech startup. We’ve made investments in our editorial team with last year’s hire of Richard MacManus as senior editor - MacManus founded and built ReadWriteWeb - as well as with Colleen Coll as our digital media operations and marketing manager. Our partnership with Insight aligns with their goals and provides The New Stack with the opportunity to be more deeply embedded into the technology ecosystem. The New Stack is defined by services and software on sophisticated and fast distributed infrastructure. The effort is an exercise in building trust in their work and respect among their peers. Their contributions provide their peers with perspectives that provide clarity to often complex, nuanced topics while also serving as a place to build lasting narratives. Our sponsors provide the foundation for the needed explanation and analysis of at-scale development, deployment, and management. They are putting a deep focus on the developer community. Insight’s team is committed to further building The New Stack, along with the team that has made us who we are today. With Insight’s support, we’ll now be around for years to come with The New Stack, building the culture and our brand with broadened and deeper coverage for our community. At the time, we agreed, The New Stack would be a ten-year project. I asked Judy if she could support starting a business. A few days later we had a sponsor on board with more to follow. Scale served as our focus on bringing a deeper understanding of the development, deployment, and management of technologies software developers, engineers, and operations professionals required for their increasingly complex work. The initial thinking remains true to our vision: The New Stack is defined by services and software on sophisticated and fast distributed infrastructure. I left Caffe Centro, boarded the BART, and started my business plan on the way back home to Portland. Heather asked: “Would you ever be interested in starting your own blog?” I paused and asked: “Do you have any sponsors?” She said she did. It had only been a few days since I had met with Heather Fitzsimmons of Mindshare PR at Caffe Centro in San Francisco’s South Park. In early 2014, I had a conversation with my dear spouse, Judy. Before I get into the details, I’d like to share a story that may shed some light on how we got here and what the acquisition means for The New Stack’s community and sponsors. ![]() Global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners has acquired The New Stack, the two companies announced Tuesday. ![]()
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