"Will $25 million help you get five years into one?"
Can 9 women produce a baby in one month?
Can 9 women produce a baby in one month?
I'm as skeptical as anyone about this insane valuation, but I don't see your analogy applying here.
If they keep getting killed in their App Store reviews, no amount of employees or money will speed up adoption.
Businesses can certainly scale with more people. But this isn't a business, and to loosely paraphrase Andy Bechtolsheim at startup school this year, throwing money at problems is lazy, you should be throwing minds at problems. $41M in the bank will almost certainly be harmful at this stage of Color's development.
Also, even $41M is not going to (noticeably) speed up the surrounding ecosystem.
It is well established that certain work scales almost linearly with more people. But it is also well known that a lot of other types of work do not at all scale when you throw more people in. Usually it is intellectual tasks, like programming or turning a startup into a profitable business, that don't scale well.
Try reading the mythical man month.
There is some limiting rate for iteration...