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It seems like Zinc is highly profitable. Now that you are running Assembled - is Zinc on autopilot?
I am also curious to know..why you decided to go for VC funding for Assembled when Zinc could help bootstrap it.
Thanks for sharing! Sounds like you are having a lot of fun! It seems like Zinc is highly profitable. Now that you are running Assembled - is Zinc on autopilot? I am also curious to know..why you decided to go for VC funding for Assembled when Zinc could help bootstrap it.
For why we took VC funding for Assembled: the full explanation is probably worth its own article. But the short answer is that the space and the opportunity are really big in customer support and the money helps us move much faster.
Hah what a similar story to my own - open source, Stripe then into YC. The energy at Stripe was unreal and I’m not sure I fully groked it until I started my own business. > Everyone I talked to genuinely cared about their job and about me as a person, and everyone was high powered. Simply walking around the office(s) was incredibly energizing for this reason. Fairly hard contrast with the last year of isolation and w…
This stuff does make me uneasy, because it's what we all need, enough of a support system to be able to fail, but so few of us have it. When I failed I was homeless, and it still hurts. When I sock away a hundred thousand maybe I can have a journey.