When you build great software applications, people notice. You can sell what seems like a simple to-do app for a price of $100 million to $200 million to the software giant of our times. Software engineering innovations has a bright future.
“Microsoft first acquired Wunderlist back in 2015, for a rumored price of between $100 million and $200 million. The software giant has since launched its own Microsoft To-Do app, and it’s clear the Wunderlist acquisition has been complicated. Wunderlist’s API runs on Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft decided to rewrite everything rather than attempt to port it directly over to Azure.”
Since then, "Microsoft redesigns To Do to make it look more like its Wunderlist predecessor"