> After the first $32 million Series B financing received in 2022, “This investment will allow us to further fuel our transformational platform initiative for professional customers, lowering the barriers to entry in IoT and AI by providing a continuum from hardware to Cloud,” says Arduino’s CEO Fabio Violante.
But professionals have different requirements, and are willing to pay for tools that work well. Opening up a professional channel only makes sense if it's buttressed by a large ecosystem outside, with the pressure to keep using Arduino, because it's well-known, hardware is tried and true, hiring is easy, etc.
So, if anything, Arduino the company now has more incentives to make Arduino widely accessible among kids, students, hobbyists, etc.
Got it.
But keep in mind that people that talk in buzzwords are often not reliable.
We do sell services but we try to avoid bullshit terms like "servitization"
Just pinky promise me that you won't make Arduino IDE a subscription :)
I know this is written for the investors, but it makes your potential professional customers feel a little sick.