These questions are often hard to answer for people unfamiliar with how VC works, but mostly because VC is not intuitive from a 'normal business' perspective.

These questions are often hard to answer for people unfamiliar with how VC works, but mostly because VC is not intuitive from a 'normal business' perspective. Essentially, VC's know very that what they're funding is risky and may go completely caput. However the VC model explicitly aims to fund companies that have the potential of becoming huge and becoming very profitable. Both the founders and VC's behind Astral are not stupid, they know that it could fail or only have moderate success... However, if they succeed in building the next generation go-to ecosystem for python development (which is arguably the world's most popular programming language), we could imagine a future where they spin off some product and it does incredibly well!