is this the 'jumped the shark' moment for companies? as soon as they go 'public' you can no longer assume their product is their priority.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2024
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You can expect them to drop at maybe one more good product, as going public is what companies do when they want to raise a lot of funds for some project
But after THAT, when it turns out that the new product is just... Making money instead of making ALL the money, the investors will take over and from then on it's fucked.
But yeah RPi has alternatives now. No need to tie yourself to them when they DO sink.
INB4 trust fund babies and gormless capitalists go and ream every last fucking cent from the brand destroying it in the process before moving on to the next thing.
How much stock ownership remains with the nonprofit Raspberry Pi Foundation? And will that be enough to hold off shareholder complaints that they aren’t being evil enough?
The article said that they are the major shareholder.