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> Cognitect was a successful consulting services startup that didn't build a scalable software product/service, right? I'm not sure what exactly you mean by th

> Cognitect was a successful consulting services startup that didn't build a scalable software product/service, right? I'm not sure what exactly you mean by that, Cognitect is a relatively small company (if I'm not mistaken, there are fewer than 20 engineers work there). And there are plenty of products built on Clojure ecosystem. It scales very well. Cisco, Apple, Walmart, etc., are all successfully built and keep expanding their [massive] Clojure code-bases.

lmeyerov 5y ago
Didn't Cognitect primarily make money through consulting services revenue for other people's projects, and not selling Clojure / Clojure tools? I think there was a product attempt by becoming a database company -- datomic -- that happened to be written in clojure, but ultimately they still got bought out for consulting vs product: https://www.cognitect.com/blog/2020/07/23/Cognitect-Joins-Nubank https://www.cognitect.com/blog/2020/07/23/Cognitect-Joins-Nu... So again, for all the good parts, just not the success story for a PL/tools startup that Jean is looking for..