notofox·vor 8 Jahren·discussThe Lighttable Saga is def a sad one and occasionally kind of irritates me.I have no idea of what "really happened", but my layman's interpretation of how that went down is...- Make a great thing w potential.- Kickstarter it.- Rush to meet the KS deadline.- Get frustrated. Abandon it.- Take VC money to take "the next step" (Eve)- Spend VC millions over X years, release some ideas in WIP repos, nothing holistic or truly practical.- Fold.- Then go to work for a proprietary Database Tools Vendor who will implicitly inherit any learning made during the previous projects.Sadness and "loss" everywhere. If I was a VC in that early deal, I'd be pissed when Looker "finally releases" Eve as some middle-ware BI system.
I have no idea of what "really happened", but my layman's interpretation of how that went down is...
- Make a great thing w potential.
- Kickstarter it.
- Rush to meet the KS deadline.
- Get frustrated. Abandon it.
- Take VC money to take "the next step" (Eve)
- Spend VC millions over X years, release some ideas in WIP repos, nothing holistic or truly practical.
- Fold.
- Then go to work for a proprietary Database Tools Vendor who will implicitly inherit any learning made during the previous projects.
Sadness and "loss" everywhere. If I was a VC in that early deal, I'd be pissed when Looker "finally releases" Eve as some middle-ware BI system.