jcavnar

Our investment is to make personal "computing" truly personal. How we merge our personal data with the apps and communities we share into is complex but has the potential to make healthcare more democratic and cost-constructive; teams more efficient, relationships more connected, information discovery more intuitive, etc. All of this for people while also lowering the economic and time barrier for increasingly smaller teams of developers who want to build these apps to get their product to their customers. We feel very purposed in our work and offer a product with an explicit model. Not sure I follow your trolling. I mean logic.

That's a super interesting point. What is the project?

Yeah...these points again illustrate the very lines of thinking being called into question with the article. 1) Solving "problems" and fulfilling a maker's purpose are not even close to the same thing. 2) nobody working at any of the initiatives listed in the article is "strapped for cash" when you compare their wages to the rest of the world -- they are making a good living doing something they believe in. 3) to be VC backed and to generate a profit doesn't inherently suggest something might not also have a deeper purpose.

totally agree with you about actively choosing things that dont make the world a worse place. great point.

Hey, thanks for the comment. Your point about financial security and "high-profile" companies are exactly the narrative I'm taking aim at. Fame and fortune are not truly sufficient motivators for innovation. Developers can do more and deserve better than to barter their skills for either of those two things. Also, show me a modestly talented developer in today's tech economy who is "strapped for cash" and I will show you someone who choses to not help themselves.