do you think that earning money or having a viable business model is a bad thing?
look at our actions since the inception of the company, as well as our "big tent" philosophy; i think they speak for ourselves.
we built a sustainable business over the course of 4 years, prior to raising a dollar of VC money. we raised VC money to go even faster.
most of our VC money goes to paying our employees.
most of our employees are engineers.
most of what our engineers do is open source.
if we don't build a sustainable business, who will develop the software?
the overwhelming majority of development on things like grafana, loki, tempo are done by grafana labs employees. plus, we are the main contributors behind other OSS projects that we didn't create and don't own (like prometheus and cortex).
[note: am co-founder/ceo at grafana labs]
look at our actions since the inception of the company, as well as our "big tent" philosophy; i think they speak for ourselves.
we built a sustainable business over the course of 4 years, prior to raising a dollar of VC money. we raised VC money to go even faster.
most of our VC money goes to paying our employees.
most of our employees are engineers.
most of what our engineers do is open source.
if we don't build a sustainable business, who will develop the software?
the overwhelming majority of development on things like grafana, loki, tempo are done by grafana labs employees. plus, we are the main contributors behind other OSS projects that we didn't create and don't own (like prometheus and cortex).
[note: am co-founder/ceo at grafana labs]