> Google would rather buy a company with 1m free users than a company with 10k paid users paying 100usd each. Absolutely. This is why you have companies who ha

> Google would rather buy a company with 1m free users than a company with 10k paid users paying 100usd each. Absolutely. This is why you have companies who have not proven to have a profitable business model, yet they are valued far higher than your small, bootstrapped startup. This is one more angle to look at it. I can happily claim that my tiny little bootstrapped startup is actually more profitable than Twitter :)