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Re:Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help by jansan on Friday December 18, 2020 @07:58AM (#25466609)
Did you read the headline? They are BILLIONAIRES. For some people that is enough money and they focus on different values.
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Re:Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help by kgwgk on Friday December 18, 2020 @08:21AM (#25466773)
But only in the sense of having a company that "is worth about $7 billion" according to some estimates. The point of the discussion is that they could convert that to real money that could be used to buy other assets (but no-one is forcing them to do so, so they really have the choice).
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