>Consider all the market validation they did, for you, for me, for free. Consider all the product design work they did, for all of us, for free. I have a feeli

>Consider all the market validation they did, for you, for me, for free. Consider all the product design work they did, for all of us, for free. I have a feeling that their intent wasn't to do it for free. What happened is that they couldn't gather enough information about their users to turn a profit. Yes, that's what capital does, but the end result was not free for any of its users - they gave up personal data to use it.