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Well they took a bunch of VC money so they could have a nice office in the middle of San Francisco and presumably so the founder could cash in a little bit. You
by ben_jones 10y ago
Well they took a bunch of VC money so they could have a nice office in the middle of San Francisco and presumably so the founder could cash in a little bit. You can't blame him for his choice to take VC money, but this was inevitable.
EDIT: It's actually worse if you read their wiki [1]. They were profitable enough early on to have 10 employees AND move to San Francisco, going as far to win a "best bootstrapped start-up award". THEN they took 40 million in funding.
[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imgur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imgur