The SV formula has always been: Get users. Get big. Go home. Facebook and Twitter and Google and the rest have all got their users with free cool, dynamic deve

The SV formula has always been: Get users. Get big. Go home. Facebook and Twitter and Google and the rest have all got their users with free cool, dynamic development over the years. They've grown and pushed (and bought) everyone else and they've all sold the vast majority of themselves and everyone involved is insanely rich. The current owners are shareholders. The people on the hook for these things (looking at you, Musk) are desperately trying to figure out where the monetisation's at. Damn everything else. If they can't turn these money pits into a business, what's the point. I'm still hopeful there'll be a point in time where we're comfortable paying for services, and that these companies find a way to deliver on that value without making us the product. I'd happily pay $10/mo for search that genuinely trie to find the best results. Same for social media.