News Summary

• Bending Spoons is a tech company that owns Vimeo and AOL.
• The company received 800,000 job applications last year but only hired 286 candidates.
• It has acquired more than 50 companies since launching in 2013, including video editing app Splice and data organization platform Airtable.
• In 2025, BendingSpoons spent $3 billion acquiring companies like Eventbrite and Splice..
• Candidates get an upfront warning about the demanding work culture.
• Employees give each other honest feedback and accept that they might be impacted by changes the company makes without consulting them.
• They have to embrace restructurings even when those changes disrupt their own plans.