[juloi]

We need to get used to paying for online services from the start. It would change the dynamic of dumping hundreds of millions of dollars in VC money into startups that only focus on user growth.

If smaller startups were profitable, we would have more alternatives for all the basic online needs we now have like storage, and search products for digital content we cherish. Offering free products at a loss for years to steal users from competitors would not be as good a strategy as it now is.