They're nowhere near profitability. Trust me: this was a board-level decision and wasn't made lightly. It certainly wasn't made "so we can get a bit more money." Life as a public company doesn't work that way.
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HashiCorp License Change: Business Necessity Behind OSS Decisions
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I've worked for OSS companies for 20+ years. No one happily adopts a non-OSI approved license. It's a board-level decision,made after long deliberation. If Hashi is doing it, it's not bc "we want to be richer." It's bc of a serious risk to their ability to continue to fund sw dev
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Developing Taste for Emerging Technologies and Business Potential
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It's important to develop your taste for new technologies. Sometimes new technologies end up being the engine for billion-dollar businesses—and sometimes they end up being illusions I wrote about my encounter with @GRIMES_V1 as a case study:
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WeWork bankruptcy: unicorn collapse signals startup market correction
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#WeWork, once valued at $47 billion, issues bankruptcy warning, closing at 12 cents- Business & Economy News https://
wionews.com/business-econo
my/wework-once-valued-at-47-billion-issues-bankruptcy-warning-624039
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India’s Unicorn Startups: Current Challenges and Market Trends
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Unicorn Dry Spell: Decrypting The Current State Of India’s Billion-Dollar Startups https://
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Monetizing AI: The Hard Reality for Builders
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I don't love the BSL (I know, I know…) but agree 100,000% with the "haven't tried to make $$" comment. I've spent my entire career trying to do it and it's HARD.
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Cloud Giants’ Advantage in Monetizing Open Source Software
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Years ago @timbray called out the divide between the cloud vendors (awesome at operating sw at scale) and others better at building sw. https://
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HashiCorp’s Shift: Open Source Commitment Under Scrutiny
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Et tu, Hashi? It's always been overly façile to blame "VC-backed biz", and claim companies just didn't get open source/lacked commitment. But Hashi was (and is!) one of the "good guys." So this isn't done out of some "We're not rich enough" motive. Time to confront reality https://
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Building Responsible AI Models: Inclusion, Bias, Investment
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The proposed @SXSW discussion will focus on building responsible #AI models that drive inclusion, avoiding algorithmic bias & discrimination, using investor tools for vetting AI startups and more. #SXSW #SXSW2024