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Welcome to the world of drift, now in your pocket!
CarX Drift Racing 3 is the long-awaited sequel in the legendary game series from developer CarX Technologies. Assemble your very own unique drift car

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Over 100 000 000 fans around the world have already downloaded CarX series games. It’s your time to join!

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Hashiriya Drifter (走り屋 - Street Racing) - from 80-90' Japan car culture.
Hashiriya Drifter is the ultimate drift racing game that you always wanted to play! This immersive, epic car game also offers a

No campaign, no cutscenes, just beautifully simple scenery and a whole lot of tyre smoke. How far can you get?

Drifto is the most simple and satifsying car drifting game you'll find. Throw a huge ran

Relentlessly focusing on customer success and building products that solve real business problems, with deep commitment to understanding how B2B buyers want to engage and purchase.

Customer Obsession

Pioneering new categories and pushing boundaries in conversational AI, generative AI chatbots, and revenue orchestration to stay ahead of rapidly evolving B2B technology landscape.

Innovation

Moving fast to test ideas, iterate products, and deliver value to customers quickly in the fast-paced martech and salestech environment where speed creates competitive advantage.

Velocity

Fostering collaboration across Boston, Atlanta, Tampa, San Francisco, London, Warsaw, Cape Town, and Guadalajara locations following Salesloft integration, working together to serve nearly 6,000 global customers.

Teamwork

Drift is a conversational marketing and sales platform using AI-powered chatbots and live chat to engage B2B website visitors, qualify leads, book meetings, and accelerate revenue, now part of Salesloft's AI-powered Revenue Orchestration Platform following a February 2024 acquisition.

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Link rot and content drift are endemic to the web

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OSIRIS spots Philae drifting across the comet

Scott Ernst

David Cancel

Co-Founder & Former Executive Chairman

Elias Torres

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Drift: Conversational Marketing Sales Platform

Drift Chatbots Live Chat B2B Platform

From HubSpot to Conversational Marketing Pioneer

Drift serves B2B businesses as conversational marketing and sales platform with chatbots and live chat, following 2015 David Cancel founding with Elias Torres in Boston

Enterprise-grade AI chatbots leveraging generative AI and trained on each customer's specific content to deliver accurate, efficient conversations with minimal maintenance. Customers using Bionic Chatbots saw 50% more opportunities with 45% fewer meetings, transforming website engagement into qualified pipeline.

Bionic Chatbots

Intelligent chat routing system that automatically directs website visitors to the most appropriate team member based on their specific inquiries and needs. Customers experienced up to 7x increase in buyer engagement when deploying Site Concierge for personalized conversations.

Site Concierge

Comprehensive buyer engagement solution combining chatbots, live chat, and conversational landing pages to transform passive website browsing into active revenue-generating conversations. Real-time notifications ensure sales teams never miss high-value opportunities.

Drift Engage

Dynamic landing pages that replace traditional static forms with interactive conversations, qualifying leads in real-time and booking meetings instantly. Dramatically improves conversion rates by engaging prospects at peak interest moments.

Conversational Landing Pages

Automated meeting booking system synced with team calendars allowing prospects to schedule sales conversations instantly without back-and-forth email coordination. Accelerates sales cycles by eliminating scheduling friction.

24/7 Meeting Scheduler

Unified platform for B2B conversational marketing and sales including playbooks, routing rules, qualification workflows, ABM targeting, and conversational intelligence. Integrates with Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, and Salesloft for seamless data flow across revenue operations.

Conversational AI Platform

Combined Drift-Salesloft platform orchestrating personalized, omnichannel buyer journeys from initial website engagement through sales outreach, meetings, and closed deals. Bridges gap between marketing-generated web engagement and sales-driven pipeline acceleration.

Revenue Orchestration (Salesloft Integration)

Salesloft, backed by Vista Equity Partners, announced the acquisition of Drift to create the first AI-powered Revenue Orchestration Platform that serves the entire buyer journey. The combination unites Salesloft's sales engagement excellence with Drift's conversational marketing and AI chatbot expertise, enabling companies to orchestrate personalized, omnichannel buyer experiences from website visit through closed deal. The combined entity serves nearly 6,000 global customers. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Salesloft Acquires Drift to Expand AI-Powered Revenue Orchestration Platform

Drift was recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Conversation Automation Solutions for B2B, Q1 2024 report, receiving the highest scores possible in 17 of 33 criteria. The recognition validates Drift's platform excellence in conversational AI, chatbot technology, and ability to accelerate B2B revenue through automated conversations that qualify leads and book meetings.

Drift Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Conversation Automation Solutions for B2B, Q1 2024

Drift unveiled three flagship AI-powered products: Bionic Chatbots leveraging generative AI and trained on customer-specific content; Site Concierge providing intelligent chat routing; and Drift Engage for comprehensive buyer engagement. Customers using Bionic Chatbots saw 50% more opportunities with 45% fewer meetings, while Site Concierge users experienced up to 7x increase in buyer engagement, demonstrating the platform's ability to transform website visitors into qualified pipeline.

Drift Defines Future of Conversational Marketing with New AI-Powered Innovations

Vista Equity Partners announced a strategic investment in Drift, acquiring a majority stake and valuing the conversational marketing pioneer at over $1 billion, granting it unicorn status. The partnership aimed to accelerate Drift's product development and market expansion while providing resources to help customers drive B2B conversational commerce and revenue acceleration. Drift had grown to over 5,000 customers and generated $5 billion in pipeline value for clients in 2021 alone.

Vista Equity Partners Takes Majority Stake in Drift, Achieving Unicorn Status

Drift achieved unicorn status with a strategic investment from Vista Equity Partners valuing the company at over $1 billion. The Boston-based conversational marketing platform, founded in 2015 by David Cancel and Elias Torres, reached this milestone after building a customer base of 5,000+ businesses and pioneering the conversational marketing category. The investment positioned Drift to accelerate AI innovation and geographic expansion.

Drift Is Now Valued Over $1B With Investment From Vista Equity Partners

Following the February 2024 acquisition, Salesloft and Drift announced progress on deeper platform integration to create unified Revenue Orchestration capabilities. The integration combines Drift's conversational intelligence and website engagement with Salesloft's sales engagement and cadence management, enabling customers to orchestrate seamless buyer journeys from initial web visit through sales outreach and closed deals. Drift continues to be sold separately while integration unfolds.

Salesloft-Drift Integration Progresses to Bridge Marketing and Sales Workflows

Tokyo after dark. Epic nighttime street drifting convoy.

Bro drifted a car, impressed a girl and dabbed a friend

Rockin the OneWheel Lawnchair GT with the Heely DriftKicks like it’s 3035 - spotted in Reno NV

Drift car minus drift skill == "I'm dead, I'm dead, no, my life's over"

Crimson Desert: Medieval Drift

How do people drift like this

drift — a terminal screensaver that activates when you're idle [OC]

Several months of drift training from scratch on the steering wheel

My first drifting crash

Horse drifting M&amp;K

CrimsonDesert

Damnthatsinteresting

nextfuckinglevel

funny

instant_regret

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Drifting

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David Cancel and Elias Torres, former HubSpot executives, founded Drift in Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts with mission to remove friction from business buying and pioneer conversational marketing category, shifting B2B away from lead forms toward real-time conversations.

Drift Founded in Boston

Raised $15 million Series A from Charles River Ventures, General Catalyst, NextView Ventures, Founder Collective, and angel investors including HubSpot co-founders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah to build conversational marketing platform.

Series A Funding Round

Completed Series C funding round of $60 million, fueling aggressive product development, geographic expansion, and team growth as Drift established itself as conversational marketing category leader.

Series C Funding

Vista Equity Partners acquired majority stake in Drift at valuation exceeding $1 billion, granting Drift unicorn status. The strategic partnership provided resources for accelerated innovation while validating Drift's technology and market leadership in conversational AI.

Vista Equity Partners Acquisition - Unicorn Status

Scott Ernst took over as CEO from founder David Cancel, who transitioned to Executive Chairman role. Cancel had led Drift for over seven years, building it to 5,000+ customers and $1B+ valuation. Elias Torres continued as CTO maintaining technical leadership.

Leadership Transition - Scott Ernst Named CEO

Introduced three flagship AI-powered products: Bionic Chatbots leveraging generative AI trained on customer content; Site Concierge for intelligent chat routing; and Drift Engage for enhanced buyer engagement. Customers saw 7x engagement increase and 50% more opportunities.

Bionic Chatbots, Site Concierge, and Drift Engage Launch

Vista Equity-backed Salesloft acquired Drift in strategic consolidation, combining Salesloft's sales engagement platform with Drift's conversational marketing expertise to create AI-powered Revenue Orchestration Platform serving nearly 6,000 global customers. Financial terms not disclosed.

Salesloft Acquisition Announced

Drift named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Conversation Automation Solutions for B2B, Q1 2024 report, receiving highest scores possible in 17 of 33 criteria, validating platform excellence in conversational AI market.

Forrester Wave Leader Recognition

Began deeper integration of Drift's conversational intelligence with Salesloft's sales engagement platform, enabling coordinated omnichannel buyer journeys from website visit through closed deal. Drift continues to be sold separately while integration unfolds.

Salesloft-Drift Integration Progress

Campfire gives the Niantic community a new way to experience the joy of real-world gameplay. 

Find and connect with nearby players to accomplish in-game activities and quests!
• Discover real-time ac

Whether you want to write a book, tabletop RPG campaign, short story, or just create for fun, Campfire’s writing software streamlines the writing process to make beginning your project more efficient 

If you’re anything like us, you love to obsess over a great story. That feeling of wanting to consume everything you can from a book—character details, worldbuilding, notes in the margins, maps to ogl

Campfire is a United States-based AI-driven ERP company founded by John Glasgow building modern NetSuite alternative raising $35M Series A June 2025 led by Accel with Foundation Y Combinator Capital 49 angels plus $3.5M seed May 2024 achieving ~100 clients within 9 months including Advisor360 Rhumbix Fooji with one enterprise client projected $250M ARR participating in Y Combinator Summer 2023 batch targeting startups mid-size tech companies outgrowing QuickBooks Xero frustrated with NetSuite SAP through fully modern AI-first ERP platform delivering accounting revenue management automation.

Holla - An open source Campfire

Campfire: Web-Based Chat Application

Zed Shaw: "rails-core ripped off the idea for Campfire from NextApp Echo2 ChatClient Demo"

Campfire

Google Apps Marketplace Launches At Google Campfire One

campfire

Had a campfire at the cousins last night….

When the studio ACTUALLY starts cooking for an isekai anime | Real Life Reference vs Anime Comparison [Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill]

Welp A03 is down, come gather around the Campfire folks

I had someone message me on campfire I do not have enough to offer for a remote trade 😱. This is what I had/have tagged.

UPDATE: We are proud to share that we closed the acquisition of Niantic’s game business on May 29, 2025. The deal brings category-leading games ‘Pokemon GO’, ‘Pikmin Bloom,’ ‘Monster Hunter Now’ and community-builder companion apps and services ‘Campfire’ and ‘Wayfarer’ to the Scopely portfolio.

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