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Also folks making similar comments are missing that funding is about the future of the product/business, not just scaling growth (though you do see with later s
by jacobr1 5y ago
Also folks making similar comments are missing that funding is about the future of the product/business, not just scaling growth (though you do see with later stage funding).
Something like Postman is a bet on enterprise tooling for APIs, both building and integrating with them. Looks like Postman has gone beyond their chrome extension, and leveraged that to add more a bunch more features. But even if all that was easy enough to build, the investment is really about the trend and the business ability to capitalize on the trend. VC investment is always more forward-looking than the current product state.
- tofuahdude 5y agoFor sure. Valuation of a VC raise !== technical complexity. Easy to conflate from an engineer's seat, I guess.