Their stance on APIs truly baffle me. Ok, I get it, you don't want people using an app without ads. And you, for some reason, think that trying to wall off the public commons from scientists and sell them snippets piecemeal is going to be a valid longterm strategy -- dumb, but coherent. But to spend buckets of money getting 3p devs to build stupid little games in-app while also actively banning the huge suite of tool…
I blame the corrupting influence of YC, personally. [For the record, I don’t question your personal belief.] Did you know Conde’ Nast bought Reddit twenty years ago? And as a publicly traded company since 2024, it is driven by Wall Street expectations?
Woah, YC divested completely?! Thank you for the correction, I associate them so closely in this Sam Altman world in which we live in that I completely forgot. If they're still invested its through intermediaries -- Tencent and Blackrock both hold bigger portions.