> We gotta focus on some business relevant work in 2026

Remember that post announcing the millions of VC capital they raised? This is the result

satvikpendem 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Without such venture capital, I doubt GPUI, at least to the level of complexity it has today rather than being a toy project, would have even existed. It costs money to develop open source sustainably.

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koito17 2 hours ago | parent [-]

GPUI development predates Sequoia's funding by about two years.

	▲	satvikpendem an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Companies start with founders funding themselves through savings and friends and family rounds before institutional investors are usually even interested. But make no mistake, they start it as a commercial venture, otherwise they wouldn't have taken VC in the first place, nevermind that VCs wouldn't have funded it if not for their pitch on how it could become a billion dollar company. And since Sequoia? It is primarily the Zed team working full time on it, which costs money.

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staticassertion 21 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You vastly overestimate the amount of pressure a board can place on an early stage startup. The far more likely scenario to me (someone who raised VC money) is that the CEO likely looked at their run rate and decided to prioritize things more aggressively. This is hardly surprising and it has nothing to do with VCs.

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tptacek 36 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What's that, doing actual work rather than labor-of-love open source stuff? Seems reasonable.

Did you not raise a bunch of money from Sequoia? Sounds like you're in a perfect place to quit your job and hack on GPUI for us.

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kitsune1 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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