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		everfrustrated 78 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare Email Service: private beta Much of their model and success was by giving away a lot of service for free. I'm not discounting their innovations but had they not been VC funded and given away free service I suspect many would still never have heard of them.

jtbaker 78 days ago [–]

> had they not been VC funded and given away free service I suspect many would still never have heard of them.

What does this purity test accomplish? that's just how things work in this industry. Can you name a company that has innovated on their scale that hasn't taken VC?

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