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Without such venture capital, I doubt GPUI, at least to the level of complexity it has today rather than being a toy project, would have even existed. It costs
by satvikpendem 9mo ago
Without such venture capital, I doubt GPUI, at least to the level of complexity it has today rather than being a toy project, would have even existed. It costs money to develop open source sustainably.
- koito17 9mo agoGPUI development predates Sequoia's funding by about two years.
- satvikpendem 9mo agoCompanies start with founders funding themselves through savings and friends and family rounds before institutional investors are usually even interested. But make no mistake, they start it as a commercial venture, otherwise they wouldn't have taken VC in the first place, nevermind that VCs wouldn't have funded it if not for their pitch on how it could become a billion dollar company. And since Sequoia? It is primarily the Zed team working full time on it, which costs money.
- torginus 9mo agoIMGUI and other GPU accelerated toolkits exist and have been created without billons of VC revenue. In fact the entire Qt group is just work 650m EUR
- satvikpendem 9mo agoWho said anything about billions? I just said that it costs money to pay people to work on OSS, which is accurate as ImGui is sponsored by companies and Qt is a commercial entity with infamous licensing. VC doesn't necessarily mean billions in funding.