Never trust a VC-backed founder who says, "don't worry ___ is not leaving"

Source: In his May 2025 open letter to Arc members and subsequent public statements, CEO Josh Miller reassured users that while active feature development was ending, Arc would be maintained indefinitely.

https://www.theverge.com/news/674603/arc-browser-development...

As of today the eco-system favors a VC backed company for visibility and more. Building a company itself is hard, bootstrapping it when there are VCs willing to fund you feels like an unnecessary risk.

what was Arc's business model even?

> Never trust a product that takes VC funding.

There are almost no startups today that can survive if VC funding did not exist, even more so now that AI and LLMs exists.

Might as well not use any of them if they are funded by VCs or angel investors.

And if not, how should they be funded?

Donations? Not sustainable.