Geek SlimFast gets $50 million but Signal—which protects our privacy—can't raise $10 million to pay for for SMS activation of new users.


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kickstarter or patreon or something else available?
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Signal needs to be funded as it is. VCs are so used to burning money; they should just throw this money at Signal and pretend it's a juicer.
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Maybe if we printed a few juicebro T-shirts?
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I'm not a fan of many companies that get funding, but you're assuming the biz model choice is arbitrary and could easily be different.
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Signal needs to be funded, just because. It shouldn't be a business per se. It is very very very lean, except for the SMS fees.
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I am sure that other types of funding will eventually emerge. A lot happens in this direction in public funding and foundations.
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Mixed models w/ user co owner ship/ coops and public funding could be a way to do it. But again: it is the shift in our def. of value.
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