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I'm always baffled by this as well. "Let's make something cool, get money from investors, then figure out how to make money off it!"

In other words, cash in and leave before people find out there actually isn't money in it or cram the service full of advertising and watch the users flock to the next upcoming thing as your service tanks like a flaming dumpster rolling down a San Francisco hill.

Wasn't that Google's business model, they got funding before they figured out how to make money.

What a time to be alive.

Sounds like "acquihire in 2 years for $25M"

Or maybe an IPO in 5 years for $4 billion.