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失败与踩坑

• A fire sale in 2006 for $10 million to $…
• Aaron Swartz's firing in 2007 and suicid…
• Six years of founder absence from 2009 t…
• Ellen Pao's brief 8-month interim CEO te…
• Huffman using admin privileges to tamper…
• The 2023 API pricing storm

关键成功要素

• Community Before Product
• Founder Buyback
• Cultivate the Ecosystem Free First
• Turning the Sale Mistake into a Buyback …
• AI Data Pricing Power
• IPO Distributed to Community Members

经验教训

• Don't Sell Too Early
• Governance is Harder Than Product for Co…
• Turn Community Data into Oil in the AI E…
• Nurture with a Free API for 15 Years Bef…
• Original Founders Are the Soul of the Pl…
• CEOs Must Not Touch User Content