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Thomas R.

cosmos.so discover page is just so good

Jonas Maaløe
Replying to @yamiki @thoma

I never had the feeling that Cosmos had “a lot of money”. The team is like, 3 people?

Nikita Pashinsky
Replying to @jonas.so @yamiki @thoma

Apparently they raised $6M in 2022: crunchbase.com/organization/c…

Cosmos - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding
Cosmos is a Pinterest alternative for creatives.
Jonas Maaløe
Replying to @nkta @yamiki @thoma

Didn’t know, so that’s fair. Although pretty far from being bootstrapped, a $6M seed going on two years doesn’t exactly scream “excessive and VC-horny team of moneybags” to me either, but maybe my calibration for that is off

Jonas Maaløe
Replying to @nkta @yamiki @thoma

It’s still far away from to the way Arena rolls. Which for the record I’m a big fan of. But it’s a very particular choice made by that team because of who they are, and what they want to make, and I think it’s ok for other teams to not feel that choice is right for them

Nikita Pashinsky
Replying to @jonas.so @yamiki @thoma

Totally agreed! While the way Arena does things *feels* better to me, I’m not in a position to say that any one method of building a company is better than the other. This thread just got me curious for a quick google about differences in funding of Cosmos and Arena :)

Jonas Maaløe
Replying to @nkta @yamiki @thoma

Arena is the real-world answer to whether design is art, which, no, because if it were there would a lot more artists making products, and Arena are a bunch of artists building a tech product

Jonas Maaløe
Replying to @nkta @yamiki @thoma

(That’s why they kick so much ass)

David Mendes
Replying to @yamiki @thoma

I don't think Arena is bootstrapped. Maybe they don't have big investors behind, but they've raised money in the past.

Nikita Pashinsky
Replying to @davidmendes @yamiki @thoma

They are very transparent about their operations. No VC money FWIW. > In 2018 we ran a crowdfunding campaign where 850 people invested on Are.na, ~75% of those who invested were already members of our platform. We rely on no other external funding. are.na/about

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Josh Pindjak
Replying to @yamiki @thoma

cosmos paywalling specific usernames rubbed me the wrong way. total money grab for literally no reason