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I considered investing a small amount in them when they were raising a round from customers since I loved the search product so much. I too can't imagine going
by jonpurdy 2y ago
I considered investing a small amount in them when they were raising a round from customers since I loved the search product so much. I too can't imagine going back to anything else, especially now that I have prioritized and blocked domains set up perfectly and added lenses, and this stuff works across desktop and mobile!
I've been mildly regretting not investing up until 5 minute ago when I read about spending 1/3 of that on the t-shirt factory.
- sithadmin 2y agoThe claim that's made in this blog - that Kagi 'owns a t-shirt factory' seems disingenuous, or lazy at best. Kagi's own blog says that instead of going with a major branded merch manufacturer/distributor, they chose to work with a small print shop instead. Nothing about blowing funds on an actual factory/print shop. "Owning a merch operation end to end" just means they're not paying some manufacturer to do production, warehousing, order fulfillment/drop shipping, etc.
- baobabKoodaa 2y agoI do not understand this distinction. Either they "own" the merch operation "end to end", or they don't. You can't have it both ways.
- EasyMark 2y agoYou can contract facilities or output percentage. You don't have to only "own it end to end" or not.
- baobabKoodaa 2y agoIf you contract facilities then you don't "own" the merch operation "end to end".
- wasmitnetzen 2y agoKagi's post says further down that they > allocate[d] nearly a third of our investor-raised funds to produce and freely distribute 20,000 t-shirts Though it sounds like they don't actually own "a t-shirt factory", but rather a t-shirt distributor.