OpenAI in particular [has raised over $290 billion dollars of investment](https://www.owler.com/company/openai/funding), and has not yet turned a profit.

Broadcom moved VMware toward a simplified subscription model, cut the product stack down aggressively, and guided fiscal 2024 adjusted EBITDA to 61% of revenue. It is a harsh model. It is not a cultural blueprint for every founder.

Broadcom moved VMware toward a simplified subscription model, cut the product stack down aggressively, and guided fiscal 2024 adjusted EBITDA to 61% of revenue. It is a harsh model. It is not a cultural blueprint for every founder. But it is a reminder that radical cost discipline, product simplification, and price realization are possible.

Raising prices will for sure decrease demand and that risks killing the growth story. And even if revenue keeps growing, it doesn’t matter if there are no margins

But there is still somewhat of a tension between serving those requirements and making sure the business can make a profit, and also ensuring that the expense of complying is adequately funded but not too expensive.

To never block or remove features from k6 in order to make them exclusive to Load Impact’s SaaS productStrive not to delay introduction of new features in the k6 OSS tool, if the feature was planned to appear both there and in Load Impact’s SaaS productTo never introduce into the k6 OSS tool any artificial limits designed to promote conversion to Load Impact’s SaaS productTo work with the community, participating in and prioritize building the functionality the k6 community wants, making it the prefered tool for load testing

With k6, our goal has always been to create the best load testing tool for the modern working developer and that we do this in collaboration with the k6 community. Our revenue will not come from k6 directly, but from premium value creating offers based on k6. These offers will be made available at https://loadimpact.com. Load Impact premium offers will have focus on providing further simplicity, productivity and ease to use functionality.

We believe the key to Load Impact’s long-term success as a Company is to foster an active community of users around k6 as an open source project. To achieve this long-term goal, it is vital that we do not withhold new features from k6 based on whether or not they compete with our SaaS offering.

Load Impact is a for profit organization, and recognizes that there is a need to balance this requirement with the needs of the k6 open source project. In the longer run, we strongly believe that those two needs will rarely be in conflict.

a jewel that couldn't quite find a home or a way to make a profit.