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It's not necessarily the organization and its founders who have revenue maximization as a primary goal. The other factor is hundreds of millions of dollars of V
by Veen 6y ago
It's not necessarily the organization and its founders who have revenue maximization as a primary goal. The other factor is hundreds of millions of dollars of VC money, and VCs are definitely all about revenue maximization. MapBox has raised quarter of a billion.
The conundrum is how does a company develop software as complex as MapBox without relying on VC cash to get the ball rolling.
- joejoebags 6y agoGreat point. Are there any bootstrapped $1B+ open core companies? There are a surprising number of proprietary ones (e.g. Esri, Mailchimp, etc.)
- vaibhavgandhi12 6y agoCloudera