You can have mismanaged paid services that hemhorrage cash, and you can have well managed free services that are extremely profitable. I don't think there's a l

You can have mismanaged paid services that hemhorrage cash, and you can have well managed free services that are extremely profitable. I don't think there's a logical correlation. One datapoint is the massive amount of investment they took, and the amount of time they've been going. It was obvious they'd need an exit soon.