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> You have a few tools companies like Carbonite, Dropbox, 1Password. These are niche. SmugMug. Carbonite. Mailchimp. Backblaze. It is quite literally, pick a n
by notyourday 7y ago
> You have a few tools companies like Carbonite, Dropbox, 1Password. These are niche.
SmugMug. Carbonite. Mailchimp. Backblaze. It is quite literally, pick a niche and there's a company making money servicing that niche. Is it a billion dollar company? Nope. Will it ever be if it sticks to doing whatever the product that it had? Who knows. But are they going to lose money on "enterprise" while cannibalizing its B2C business? Pretty much guaranteed.
Remember Borland? The one that created a market for $100 compilers it sold millions copies? It decided to replace those millions of customers paying $100 with a hundred customers paying a million? That was a total reversal of fortunes.
> Enterprise is where SaaS companies get paid. Slack makes like half their revenue from 500 companies.
And it still cannot make money.