Why would investors care about your product or users? They care about returns.
If you can bootstrap it yourself then there's no need to do this, but those that bring in investors will need an exit.
If you can bootstrap it yourself then there's no need to do this, but those that bring in investors will need an exit.
You just never hear about them because they’re small and like the businesses they invest in, they’re satisfied with moderate returns.
You can do two, or even all three of those things. Human beings are not boolean greed machines.
The HN bubble likes to reduce everything to a numbers game. Real life isn't like that, as demonstrated by the many tens of thousands of companies that aren't run like a dystopian Silicon Valley comic book.