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Arduino raises $22M Series B round

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Re: Arduino raises $22M Series B round

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Post by ori_b »

mbanzi wrote: post #101
frollo wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given Arduino's origin and first history this is especially depressing. Good old Adriano is now well and buried.

Hi (co founder of Arduino here) Good old Arduino is still here, we're still releasing a ton of tools for the community, we're still innovating every day. We're using most of the funds to develop our professional offering. I believe this is a natural progression for companies like us. Our investors leave free to work on whatever technology and let us open source anything we feel can contribute to the community. They n…

Have you discussed this with your VCs? Which methods of maximizing revenue have they agreed you will be leaving on the table in perpetuity?

What will happen if you don't make the returns they expect? Do you have a controlling share, or is it possible for them to fire you and replace you with a more compliant CEO?

This sort of thing tends to be a collaboration, until the growth doesn't meet expectations.

Re: Arduino raises $22M Series B round

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Post by baz00 »

mbanzi wrote: post #124
baz00 wrote: post #74

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What a load of complete steaming bollocks.

What a fundamental contribution to the discussion :)

I try :)

I know this is written for the investors, but it makes your potential professional customers feel a little sick.

Re: Arduino raises $22M Series B round

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Post by wintogreen74 »

mbanzi wrote: post #101
frollo wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given Arduino's origin and first history this is especially depressing. Good old Adriano is now well and buried.

Hi (co founder of Arduino here) Good old Arduino is still here, we're still releasing a ton of tools for the community, we're still innovating every day. We're using most of the funds to develop our professional offering. I believe this is a natural progression for companies like us. Our investors leave free to work on whatever technology and let us open source anything we feel can contribute to the community. They n…

Not sure if you're as naive as your comments here, or just spouting the standard jargon, but even "We're using most of the funds to develop our professional offering" and " Our investors leave free to work on whatever technology" are in complete disagreement. "They never interfere" - right... I don't doubt you strongly disagree, but history says you're wrong. Maybe Arduino will be the exception but I wouldn't bet on it. You took the money; you made the deal. If ever it comes to a decision that would negatively impact your investors or hold to the original ideals, which way do you think it will go?

Re: Arduino raises $22M Series B round

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Post by roschdal »

mbanzi wrote: post #101
frollo wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given Arduino's origin and first history this is especially depressing. Good old Adriano is now well and buried.

Hi (co founder of Arduino here) Good old Arduino is still here, we're still releasing a ton of tools for the community, we're still innovating every day. We're using most of the funds to develop our professional offering. I believe this is a natural progression for companies like us. Our investors leave free to work on whatever technology and let us open source anything we feel can contribute to the community. They n…

I love Arduino! How can I help the Arduino project, I live in Norway.

Re: Arduino raises $22M Series B round

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Post by Saris »

markus_zhang wrote: post #8
lexicality wrote: post #3

Sounds to me like another nail in the coffin for Arduino as a useful tool for hobbyists. That said I stopped buying Arduinos years ago and started buying super low cost ESPs from China and I think most other people did too so I guess it's not going to be a huge blow

How does the compatibility go? I guess it's trivial to setup a dev enclv using ooen source ide and toolchain so we don't have to use their ide.

Supported fully by the Arduino framework. Working with them using PlatformIO in vscode is really nice and streamlined.

Re: Arduino raises $22M Series B round

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Post by londons_explore »

gary_0 wrote: post #132
mbanzi wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi (co founder of Arduino here) Good old Arduino is still here, we're still releasing a ton of tools for the community, we're still innovating every day. We're using most of the funds to develop our professional offering. I believe this is a natural progression for companies like us. Our investors leave free to work on whatever technology and let us open source anything we feel can contribute to the community. They n…

Don't waste time disagreeing with people on social media, just prove them wrong by doing the right thing. People are really downhearted by how things have turned out in the tech industry, but maybe someday we will point to Arduino as one of the companies who turned that around. Good luck!

To word this differently... We here on HN have seen this go wrong 1000 times. But we hope Arduino is the project that manages to accept VC funding and still stay true to its opensource maker roots.

Re: Arduino raises $22M Series B round

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Post by LandoCalrissian »

"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"

That entire sentence makes me want to jump off a bridge.

Re: Arduino raises $22M Series B round

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Post by [deleted] »

jandrese wrote: post #100
ourlordcaffeine wrote: post #57

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> I would tend to trust an Arduino more than an ESP in critical infrastructure. Arduino has always come across to me as being for hobbyist/beginner/learning, and critical infra would use things more like, for example, STMicro or Texas Instruments microcontrollers

Wasn't the whole project started because a professor was unhappy with the state of hardware for the schoolroom?

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Re: Arduino raises $22M Series B round

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Post by londons_explore »

leros wrote: post #116
mbanzi wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi (co founder of Arduino here) Good old Arduino is still here, we're still releasing a ton of tools for the community, we're still innovating every day. We're using most of the funds to develop our professional offering. I believe this is a natural progression for companies like us. Our investors leave free to work on whatever technology and let us open source anything we feel can contribute to the community. They n…

Glad to see you chime in here. Just curious, is Arduino setup so that the community could takeover if you did somehow go pure enterprise and abandon hobbyists? If I recall, things are pretty open source.

Everything except the name is properly opensource for the OG arduino (Arduino Uno).

For some more recent boards, there are proprietary components and binary tools and blobs - notably the Expressif board packages for the ESP8266 and ESP32's. At least some of the blame for that is with the chip manufacturers and not the Arduino project.

Re: Arduino raises $22M Series B round

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Post by jazzyjackson »

snarfy wrote: post #49
FirmwareBurner wrote: post #4

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Well, way back then, the Arduino IDE was precisely the game changer that made a lot of hobbyists and average people get into embedded systems without much friction or EE background, and not the board based on an Atmega MCU that anyone else could make. Many eons ago before the Arduino came out, I used to have EE labs in university based on the same Atmega chip but using a commercial IDE-compiler, and boy was that a gi…

And it's not even their IDE. They just slapped some AVR compilers into Processing https://processing.org/

Don't mind me just going to spam the thread with Arduino's origin as an uncredited fork of Wiring

http://arduinohistory.github.io/

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