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Happy for Taylor and the team I guess, but I feel like this can’t end well for end-users. I know Laravel the company already has numerous paid offerings, but t
by deergomoo 2y ago
Happy for Taylor and the team I guess, but I feel like this can’t end well for end-users.
I know Laravel the company already has numerous paid offerings, but to date they’ve all been pretty reasonably priced and not really anything that locks you in. Should we expect this to change? I feel like we have to
- yurishimo 2y agoI think of all people, Taylor deserves the benefit of the doubt. In his Q&A today, he was adamant that this was mostly a way to build more ambitious tools faster without risking his own capital (even though he probably could have paid for it all himself). We've seen a similar playbook with Basecamp and their influx of cash from Bezos back in the day. Taylor really leans into the DHH philosophy of business/programming so I still think it's too early to take this as a "sell out". That said, all good things come to an end. I hope Taylor will always have the decency to at least go out on good terms with the community and not let the whole thing just crash and burn because he sold off too much equity to bad faith investors.
- gustix 2y agoThe Bezos thing wasn’t really the same though. 37signals sold a minority stake to take money off the table, not to inject working capital.
- deergomoo 2y agoOh yeah, I don’t want to imply any ulterior motives for anyone involved. I’m more just concerned that sooner or later the piper will want paying and things don’t always go so well from that point on.