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That's not what he said. He said:

> Profit maximization is often in conflict with sustainability.

The head count increased ten fold since Spez took over. This is because VCs want billion dollar companies, not some moderately profitable ones. They want to deliver more (so more employees) and increase monetization, including by charging for the API.

If they stayed smaller it would have been more sustainable and wouldn't have to charge for the API.




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