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What did they spend their $25 million on? What's the tech they have that costs this much to build? Their hard problems are a building a CMS or are otherwise sol
by rosywoozlechan 3y ago
What did they spend their $25 million on? What's the tech they have that costs this much to build? Their hard problems are a building a CMS or are otherwise solved by using fastly and sendgrid?
- yoran 3y agoFor most startups that raise money, tech is hardly a big cost. Most of the money goes towards fueling growth through paid marketing and so on.
- j45 3y agoPeople and office space are traditionally two major contributors
- dnissley 3y agoJust to mention one thing that isn't user facing (and therefore not so obvious): Social media companies dealing with user-generated content have to build their own enforcement mechanisms (abuse, copyright infringement, etc.), which is at least an order of magnitude harder than the user facing content engine itself.
- Fomite 3y agoThey threw money at some big name early adopters.