[terrabytes]

MongoDB has is a pretty good example of building a business around open source software.

[smt88]

Not based on how much money they're losing. It's not a viable business yet, and it probably never will be.

[DevinTheDude]

How can you say it's not a viable business because they're losing money if you don't know their expenses? Uber & Lyft, (and for many years Amazon) were/are losing money. So that means nothing unless you know why they're blowing through cash.

[smt88]

Top post of this thread has their net loss: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15308202

They also had to report some more detailed financials when they filed to go public: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/21/mongodb-ipo-seeks-to-raise-1...

[swyx]

lol they literally just made their full financials public