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Sense.io exits
- williamstein 11y agoAfter I made a popular post on Hacker News last year about funding for SageMath, the cofounder Tristan of the VC-backed company https://sense.io/ https://sense.io/ kindly talked with me via video chat about his experiences with funding that company (thanks Tristan!). I asked him about open source, since SageMath is completely open source. It seemed like there was just no possible way at that point (last year) that they could even consider open sourcing anything in sense.io due to the funding strings that were attached. And it makes sense given the motivations of VC, which is to maximize the resale value of a company, which is largely based on what the company owns, which is partly their IP. Also, previous discussion on Hacker News of Sense.io: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9226717 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9226717