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304 points ulrischa | 3 comments | 25 Jul 25 18:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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abtinf ◴[25 Jul 25 19:20 UTC] No.44687235[source]▶
The world would be a significantly better place if someone could throw a small mountain of money at the Tailwind folks so that they can stop worrying about money and simply make the full tailwind experience freely available. There are so many lost opportunities for deep integration with other projects.

Kind of like how Jeff Bezos threw a bunch of money at 37signals at some insane valuation, which helped them completely avoid the VC trap.

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abxyz ◴[25 Jul 25 19:49 UTC] No.44687560[source]▶
Worried about money? They are already rich beyond their wildest dreams. They are, reasonably, excited about growing and expanding and building a company that does much more, but that is not driven by a need for money, it is driven by their ambition.

edit: I can’t speak for Adam etc., this is just my impression. My impression is that they want to build a business of which tailwind (the open source project) is one part. I think that regardless of money in the bank they would want to have revenue generating projects. Laravel is a good comparable.

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1. _betty_ ◴[25 Jul 25 21:33 UTC] No.44688750[source]▶
interesting, i had just watched Primeagens Standup with Adam and got the impression they don't do well for money, but a quick google came up with a bunch of posts from Adam himself disclosing some fairly impressive numbers.

No idea if he still does ok from it, but he certainly did at one stage.

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2. adamwathan ◴[26 Jul 25 01:51 UTC] No.44690607[source]▶
We are still healthy and profitable but revenue is down about 60% from peak, and continuing to trend down (I think mostly due to AI and open-source alternatives to the things we've historically charged for.)

So things are fine but we do need to reverse the trend which is why we are pretty focused on the commercial side of things right now.

We started a corporate sponsors/partner program recently, and I'm hoping that will earn us enough funding to focus more on the free/open-source stuff, since that's where we create the most value for the world anyways. Fingers crossed!

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3. stevoski ◴[26 Jul 25 17:29 UTC] No.44695668[source]▶
Adam, the Tailwind corporate sponsorship program is a great example of how to do it. I hope other notable open source projects learn from you.