I think that there are lots of companies making an open core model work. It is hard but if you can get to massive adoption like Elastic Search or Hortonworks yo

I think that there are lots of companies making an open core model work. It is hard but if you can get to massive adoption like Elastic Search or Hortonworks you can generate significant income. I must admit that both companies are not profitable by a long shot as far as I know. At GitLab we're mostly close to but below cash flow break even.