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.


https://twitter.com/mims/status/860198744104501248 …
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Maybe if we printed a few juicebro T-shirts?
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...kinda like how they pretended Juicero was a juicer, instead of a commerce-enabled internet-connected bag-squeezer.
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Hey, Silicon Valley VCs! See my deck Signal's business model! Needs $10 mil for SMS activation for new users to tell them about the juicer.
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You can just encrypt your messages by hand!
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Signal should be a paid service. Free means gathering, analysing, and selling user data. That's exactly what we don't want from Signal
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Or it can be free, as in subsidized by donations. Getting money from users lessens your privacy; it is a tension.
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This kind of Software needs to be funded far far away from VC, it's high time that value in digital is redefined. Huge shift needed.
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That's simply a donation, which incidentally is probably the best way to fund Signal. But VCs can't do it with their funds
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