100% sure messaging services should be inclusive. Imagine a world with 100 people. 20 are not able to use messaging service A because they cannot afford the computing platform needed to run A. Let’s assume 50 of the remaining 80 choose to buy the said platform and also prefer using service A. Then the 50 and 20 are disconnected from each other. Won’t this result in increasing the socio economic gaps?
The two safe combo is brilliant win-win for YC and the startup. I wonder if the uncapped MFN safe from YC will set a precedent and encourage startups to ask for more uncapped safes from other investors? And what are the negative effects of this.
I think there YC could create a new safe category and have this as “combo safe”. Portion of the moneys come capped and the rest come uncapped. Will be win win for future safe investors and startups.
few predictions on why this PR is an indication to Signal falling into the chasm:
1. The Signal team will soon realize that adding social messaging concepts to a private messaging app in a safe way is possible and more importantly is wanted by a big subset (early majority) of people.
2. The early adopters of Signal App will feel offended as they were looking for a strictly principled secret messaging app.
3. The target market of early majority will not see much difference in Signal and other options and they will stick to the app where their network is already at.
