alt Hacker NewsTo be honest, this feels more like a lifestyle business (aka hobby) than a startup. They truly deserve it, but I don't expect a huge success as a business.
That said, I hope they write cool papers with various peers across the industry without worrying too much about the competing dynamics. That'd be a blessing for humanity, and good for their spirit.
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It can be both. Bell Labs performed a lot of speculative research while still producing economically valuable technology.
I don't see how not? A theoretical physicist can do all the thinking they want but if they can't test an idea against nature it's not super useful.
> To be honest, this feels more like a lifestyle business (aka hobby) than a startup
They're also incredibly productive and can build/deliver really good stuff, so who knows :)
A public benefit corp shouldn’t be a start up. The primary goal of a start up is to grow as quickly as possible which is rarely benefits the public.
Very silly to call every non start up a lifestyle business. It’s just a business. Start up are the weird thing that almost always an obscene waste of time and money, but sometime creates google.