Good Technology
$1.2Bpaper valuation
// OVERVIEW
Good Technology spent a decade building mobile device management software for enterprises that wanted to let employees use iPhones without letting them leak classified documents — then BlackBerry acquired them for $425 million in 2015, which was $775 million less than the $1.2 billion private valuation investors had assigned six months earlier. The company that convinced Fortune 500 CIOs that mobile security required a separate software layer ceased to exist as an independent entity the moment Apple and Google decided operating system-level security was good enough.
// HQ
Sunnyvale, United States
// STATUS
PRIVATE
// FOUNDED
1996
// TIER
The Unicorn Herd · $1B – $9.9B
// PRIMARY SECTOR
cybersecurity
// FOUNDERS
// FUNDING ROUNDS
// SECTORS SERVED
// TECHNOLOGY
Good Technology built containerization software that created secure partitions on iOS and Android devices, separating corporate data from personal apps. The technology worked by wrapping enterprise applications in encrypted containers that IT departments could remotely wipe without touching the employee's personal photos or text messages. It was an elegant solution to a problem that disappeared when mobile operating systems incorporated the same functionality natively.
// WOWLS ASSESSMENT
Good Technology's $1.2 billion private valuation in 2015 assumed enterprises would pay perpetual subscription fees for mobile security middleware. Then iOS 9 and Android for Work launched with native containerization, and the entire independent MDM software category collapsed into a feature checkbox that Apple and Google gave away for free. BlackBerry acquired Good for $425 million in September 2015 — a 65% discount to the peak private valuation from earlier that year — and integrated the technology into its own declining enterprise software division. By 2023, the combined entity generated approximately $150 million in annual revenue serving a shrinking base of government agencies and financial institutions still running BlackBerry infrastructure. The company that was supposed to securitize the BYOD revolution instead became evidence that platform vendors will always commoditize middleware the moment it becomes strategically important.
// WHY WOWLS HUNTS THIS
Good Technology is the platonic ideal of a category that ceases to exist the moment platform owners wake up — profitable revenueStream in 2014, acquihired at a loss in 2015, extinct as an independent company by 2016.
// VALUATION NOTE
Peak $1.2B private valuation reported in early 2015 based on late-stage funding rounds. Acquisition price of $425M represents 65% discount to peak. Current revenue estimates based on BlackBerry's enterprise software segment disclosures.
VERDICT: ZOMBIECORN — ACQUIRED FOR $425M AFTER ACHIEVING $1.2B VALUATION, A 65% MARKDOWN THAT REPRESENTS THE EXACT MOMENT APPLE AND GOOGLE DECIDED MOBILE SECURITY WAS TOO IMPORTANT TO OUTSOURCE TO MIDDLEWARE VENDORS
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