Death of an open-source business model

Re:Death of an open-source business model by Veen on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:38PM (#25363410)

It's not necessarily the organization and its founders who have revenue maximization as a primary goal. The other factor is hundreds of millions of dollars of VC money, and VCs are definitely all about revenue maximization. MapBox has raised quarter of a billion.

The conundrum is how does a company develop software as complex as MapBox without relying on VC cash to get the ball rolling.

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Re:Death of an open-source business model by joejoebags on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:01PM (#25363858)

Great point. Are there any bootstrapped $1B+ open core companies? There are a surprising number of proprietary ones (e.g. Esri, Mailchimp, etc.)

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Re:Death of an open-source business model by vaibhavgandhi12 on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:21PM (#25364209)

Cloudera

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