There are lots of ways to get to scale w/ an open source business model. One way is to have a great product and then get on HN by slamming the cloud vendors as

There are lots of ways to get to scale w/ an open source business model. One way is to have a great product and then get on HN by slamming the cloud vendors as strip miners :) There are a bunch of open source companies that have achieved some fairly incredible scale such as Confluent / Kafka or Hashicorp (u know the stuff Vagrant, Terraform and so on).