It was announced in May but the deal to sell the website maker to private equity firm Permira is now closed, following some haggling which raised the final price from $6.9B to $7.2B. CEO Anthony Casalena is staying on board and keeping his ownership stake — he told me on Decoder in 2023 that it wasn’t “the most fun time to be a public tech company,” so we’ll see if he likes being a PE CEO any better.