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Famo.us to me was always a platform/framework or even a language more than it was a product or service.

I have no idea how they could have raised $31M on that.

This could have been an amazing framework built by the open source community instead it's now just another growth before revenue scheme that went wrong.

Sad.

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Famo.us founder was a Powerset co-founder, which had an highly successful exit to Microsoft. This pattern often explains generous funding of outlandish ideas.

(for those like me that don't know Powerset:) Powerset worked on made natural-language search engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerset_%28company%29

Interesting I didn't know that. Thanks.

"I have no idea how they could have raised $31M on that."

Downvotes for a quote?

I predicted they would not do good - easy to verify comment history.

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