agree or disagree for protocol teams?

“The company is the future adversary”

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I tend to agree

Thinking this through: at the end of the day the company needs to be profitable. Once you have a profit seeking entity* controlling a protocol, credible neutrality goes out the window if the right guardrails are not in place

Curious what the speaker had to say



*not all companies are immediately profit seeking - startups tend not to be until they have found pmf and reached sufficient scale

speaker said this was a guiding principle for bluesky/at protocol at setup

The mundane part of this is that you get projects built by people who believe in stuff then ultimately they move on and the resulting company is run by businesspeople, and the easiest way for them to grow profits year-on-year is to pull the levers the founders left unpulled because they were user-hostile