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What does GCP get in return. If they give you free credit, do you have to give then equity in your company, do you guarantee them X spend, etc?
by alberth 6y ago
What does GCP get in return. If they give you free credit, do you have to give then equity in your company, do you guarantee them X spend, etc?
- faeyanpiraat 6y agoIf you have enough funds, you might not care about building an efficient architecture, and when the credits run out, you’ll spend more? Also good PR.
- omarhaneef 6y agoIf you hit it big, you’ll spend on their platform for a long time. You don’t have to explicitly promise anything because you’ve built everything around their platform for months/years.
- xur17 6y agoYour future spend. Once you start using them, it would be a decent amount of work to change.
- matwood 6y agoMoving clouds is hard if you use the cloud features. Giving credits to startups is a cheap way to get them locked in for the future.
- kbar13 6y agoprobably vendor lock in
- kateho 6y agomy understanding is that GCP has recently changed their startup programme. I applied a few weeks ago, and had the same bad service as the OP.