Somehow people seem to have forgot along the way that value != money. I am a huge fan of people doing things just because they are useful without worrying about

Somehow people seem to have forgot along the way that value != money. I am a huge fan of people doing things just because they are useful without worrying about how they are going to try and monetise them, but just because something is useful and used by masses of people doesn't mean that the network of people that use it is easily monetisable, especially after the fact. It seems that people just looked at the number of users and assumed that because a company can get millions of users, that the people working there must be bright enough to work out how to get loads of money out of them eventually, while forgetting that you don't need to be that smart to get millions of users when you are providing a useful service for free.