Post-exit: What on earth is Heroku co-founder Adam Wiggins doing in Europe? (spoiler: not vacationing)

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Self-described hacker / entrepreneur Adam Wiggins had been around the block a few times before starting cloud platform-as-a-service companyHeroku, but that turned out to be the big one – the one that really paid off (though it took a few years, as is usually the case).

After graduating from Y Combinator, Heroku raised $13 million in funding, and was acquired by Salesforce for $212 million in cash in late 2010.

Even though he didn’t really have to, Wiggins stayed with Heroku/Salesforce until the summer of last year, when he finally decided to relax a little and think about what’s next.

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Post-exit: What on earth is Heroku co-founder Adam Wiggins doing in Europe? (spoiler: not vacationing)

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