[bradrydzewski]

Gitlab graduated from Ycombinator and raised a 4MM series A round. While these are both tremendous accomplishments and important milestones for any startup, it may be a bit premature to declare their business model a success.

[nickpsecurity]

As I said in another comment, many of the companies pushing this model are VC-funded with intent to sell out and their operation disappears into a big company (or disappears). We should distinguish between business models that are just to get an acquisition and that support long-term growth. Cheap addons with OSS/FOSS seems mainly to work in the former.

[bradrydzewski]

I agree. I was responding to the parent comment suggesting Sourcegraph should adopt a similar business model to GitLab and I was pointing out that perhaps GitLab's business model has not been proven successful yet

[nickpsecurity]

Exactly. Way too early.