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899 points georgehill | 4 comments | 06 Jun 23 16:50 UTC | HN request time: 3.016s | source
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rvz ◴[06 Jun 23 17:08 UTC] No.36215936[source]▶
> Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross provided the pre-seed funding.

Why? Why should VCs get involved again?

They are just going to look for an exit and end up getting acquired by Apple Inc.

Not again.

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throw74775 ◴[06 Jun 23 17:18 UTC] No.36216061[source]▶
Do you have pre-seed funding to give him?
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jgrahamc ◴[06 Jun 23 17:29 UTC] No.36216217[source]▶
I do.
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1. anaganisk ◴[08 Jun 23 07:28 UTC] No.36238452[source]▶
Genuinely curious, but why didn't you? Didn't the project gain enough visibility before you noticed this post, or was there any other reason which would be helpful for others to know.
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2. jgrahamc ◴[08 Jun 23 15:47 UTC] No.36243878[source]▶
Had no idea he wanted to make it a company.
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3. throw74775 ◴[08 Jun 23 17:04 UTC] No.36245167[source]▶
That makes sense - it looked very much like a pure open source project.

I wonder if they came to him or if someone else facilitated it as opposed to it being his initiative.

4. anaganisk ◴[09 Jun 23 03:51 UTC] No.36252892[source]▶
Ah, right, Lol, I didn't think of that at all. But could this be a wider problem than this? Many open source projects that could've been "sponsored" by someone like you, but ended up being commercialized by vested interests?