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Ben Halpern

When you're thinking really longterm and not accepting undue external pressures, the most obvious way to act is out of principle with the wellbeing of the users in mind.

We've made sure to only go in directions which could allow us to stay principled. When we've taken on investments, we've always made sure to do so with folks who share the principles and agree that our best path forward is to stick to them.

We've created a universe, by going open source, by making certain community promises, that nobody could talk us out of our principles even if they wanted to. We'd always be able to point to our predetermined choices as putting us on a path we can't stray from.

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Matthew Collison

Your mindset and values sound scarily close to mine. I hope a circumstantial partnership comes about in the future.

Thanks again for building the best darn developer blogging ecosystem in existence!