Re:JetBrains Research
by mike_hearn on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @04:38PM
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They got a lot bigger. In 2015 they had ~600 employees. By 2020 that was 1500.
Basically they were able to:
a. Refactor features out of IntelliJ Ultimate into separate products, expanding their mindshare and market share e.g. database plugin -> DataGrip.
b. Move their userbase to subscriptions -> much larger and more stable revenue stream.
c. Google migrated from Eclipse to IntelliJ for their Android IDE. Then Kotlin blew up and became adopted as the official primary language on Android, which created a massive ecosystem and drives lots of users to use IntelliJ and then upgrade to Ultimate.
Basically they were able to:
a. Refactor features out of IntelliJ Ultimate into separate products, expanding their mindshare and market share e.g. database plugin -> DataGrip.
b. Move their userbase to subscriptions -> much larger and more stable revenue stream.
c. Google migrated from Eclipse to IntelliJ for their Android IDE. Then Kotlin blew up and became adopted as the official primary language on Android, which created a massive ecosystem and drives lots of users to use IntelliJ and then upgrade to Ultimate.