"I didn't miss a thing. When a company raises hundreds of millions of dollars I would have been diluted to nothing. But the bigger issue is that I'm not a fan of situations where you have to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to do tens of millions in sales. It's a lesson learned from the tech bubble
It was one thing when the valuation as a multiple of sales was in stock. It's a bigger thing when that multiple is my cash."
advice pulled out of from where the sun does not shine... really, give talks at open source conferences, that would raise value how much? or library for brainfuck?
Having dev evangelists presenting cool shit gets people aware of your platform and it's free marketing, the best kind.
Further, Java, Python, Ruby, Obj-C, Android and C# isn't complete. [0] JS for browser front-end and node back-end is clearly missing or third-party. A somewhat smaller shop, Segment.io, has all of those and PHP and Clojure. And a metric ton of integrations comparatively. [1] [2]
"I didn't miss a thing. When a company raises hundreds of millions of dollars I would have been diluted to nothing. But the bigger issue is that I'm not a fan of situations where you have to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to do tens of millions in sales. It's a lesson learned from the tech bubble
It was one thing when the valuation as a multiple of sales was in stock. It's a bigger thing when that multiple is my cash."