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A matchmaking service.

• micromacrofoot 3y ago
  alright but stay with me here... what do they use to matchmake?
  • munificent 3y ago
    Think about it like this: Imagine a dastardly villain called up the CEO of Grindr and said, "I have a missible pointed at your datacenter. It's going to destroy either your server that has all of your source code, or the server that has all of your user data. Which one do you want to live?" The CEO would nuke the code without a moment's hesitation. Almost all of the value of the company is in the service it provides and the data is has to enable that. The software is just a means to an end. They'd rewrite the app and move on with their lives. Now compare that to, say, Ableton. While Ableton has user information for registration and stuff and would certainly be heartbroken to lose it, they would survive the loss. But their software is the company.
  • philipov 3y ago
    I think the distinction the original person was trying to make is that to be a software company you need to sell the software someone would use to offer such a service instead of offering the service yourself. They would stipulate that a tech company is specifically a company that sells technology to others, not any company that uses technology. Otherwise, all companies are tech companies. You can not buy the software that Grindr uses to do matchmaking; you can only buy their matchmaking service.