> Are they just getting hate because they lacked foresight in the beginning? Is it because they gambled with investor money on a ridiculous business model? For

> Are they just getting hate because they lacked foresight in the beginning? Is it because they gambled with investor money on a ridiculous business model? For me, both. I want to live in a world where companies succeed by identifying a need and then providing a service/product that fills that need. Not by taking investor money, using it to subsidize the cost of an existing service (essentially buying users), and then praying that a business model or exit offer appears after the users do but before their weight collapses the company's tenuous structure.