We tried to attack the market with a Github model: share your open source data and docs publicly (our true passion) and pay to have private repos. Our mistake,

We tried to attack the market with a Github model: share your open source data and docs publicly (our true passion) and pay to have private repos. Our mistake, as I said elsewhere, is that there was no market. We had many sales conversations and zero takers. For context, we were fully under the spell of The Great Big Data Hype of 2011 (see the current AI hype for reference) and convinced ourselves that there would be so many opportunities that we'd have our pick of which path to take. In fairness to our past selves, for a while this seemed true; valuations were insane for companies with vague value props in the space. And we met with dozens of influencers in the data world and they all professed to be excited to use it. Most of them ultimately logged in once, realized they had no hair-on-fire problem for us to solve, and stopped returning our emails. It was frustrating in the extreme. I just found one of our product videos on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWMjQhhxhQ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWMjQhhxhQ4