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Going open-source as a VC-Backed company

Going open-source as a VC-backed company | Briefer

As a result, this approach often falls short of investors' expectations for significant returns, which makes it hard to raise funding and thus prevents most founders from being able to go full-time on their project. This dysfunctional pattern manifests itself in many ways, like when companies insist on overly complex helm charts ( ugh), withhold documentation on how to run the software, or require customers to operate a dozen pods when one would work just as well. As I mentioned earlier, this incentive to increase the user base also means we can't simply reserve the best features for the non-open-source version.

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