Thanks for clarifying. Many people (including other commenters) wonder how people manage to transition from open source project to a profitable company. I think

Thanks for clarifying. Many people (including other commenters) wonder how people manage to transition from open source project to a profitable company. I think the blogpost would have been much better with this extra background information. Normally, when people read stories about bootstrapping they assume the original founder(s) retain all the equity, but in this case Ben had to sell a 50% stake in his business in order to survive.