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Gitlab graduated from Ycombinator and raised a 4MM series A round. While these are both tremendous accomplishments and important milestones for any startup, it
by bradrydzewski 11y ago
Gitlab graduated from Ycombinator and raised a 4MM series A round. While these are both tremendous accomplishments and important milestones for any startup, it may be a bit premature to declare their business model a success.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoAs I said in another comment, many of the companies pushing this model are VC-funded with intent to sell out and their operation disappears into a big company (or disappears). We should distinguish between business models that are just to get an acquisition and that support long-term growth. Cheap addons with OSS/FOSS seems mainly to work in the former.
- bradrydzewski 11y agoI agree. I was responding to the parent comment suggesting Sourcegraph should adopt a similar business model to GitLab and I was pointing out that perhaps GitLab's business model has not been proven successful yet
- nickpsecurity 11y agoExactly. Way too early.