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> less interesting since they have a non-profit mission tied to the internet-as-community and FOSS Doesn’t this aspect make them even more interesting?
by marmaduke 8y ago
> less interesting since they have a non-profit mission tied to the internet-as-community and FOSS
Doesn’t this aspect make them even more interesting?
- afroboy 8y agoMost non profit communities and FOSS are mostly have no headquarter so maybe that's why.
- pixelmonkey 8y agoOh, yes, in many ways, yes! What I meant by that: these three examples might feel, to VCs and founders, like anomalies rather than examples of an alternative scaling model for high-growth software/tech enterprises operating on a startup-to-IPO trajectory. Elastic, Automattic, InVision, Zapier, by contrast, are "traditional high-growth startups" in every respect, but where the founders simply chose fully distributed as the scaling/hiring model.
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