Bluesky raises $100 M Series B as new CEO takes charge

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Bluesky raises $100 M Series B as new CEO takes charge - Lemmy.World

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$100 million Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto

The article paints some glowing picture of success and safety from this move, as if VC doesn’t expect some huge return on investment from a service which hasn’t made a dime yet. “They’ll make money on premium subscriptions and business services”…. Right, ok.

“We’re rolling out tasteful, relevant, safe ads” in 5…4…3…

I could see running a service to host blue sky services for governments and companies being a good compromise.

You don’t need $100M to do that.

But then how will the CEO get that $25-50M bonus? Won’t someone think of the poor CEOs…