alt Hacker NewsWhat was the real real reason?
I imagine if they stayed nonprofit, they would’ve survived, but not convinced investors to give them enough $$$ and datacenters to stay the most popular (above Google).
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wahnfrieden • today at 1:13 PM
To get rich of course
greatgib • today at 1:36 PM
I can easily guess also that at the beginning they were more thinking like a research project that they could create something but would like quantum computing today, not really of real world used.
And one things started to become real, they realized the financing potential of the thing, that they were seated on a gold mine and would be stupid of them to create that and not profit much more of it.
If they stayed small and 100% non-profit, would the influence or value of the non profit be more, or less, than it is today?
I think the non-profit has around 25% ownership of something that is around a trillion dollars of on-paper money.
I guess we will see what things are still worth when the crazy days come to an end.