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I love Mitchell’s X post awhile back:

“What the monetization strategy of Ghostty?”

“My monetization strategy is that my bank account has 10 digits in it…” lol, epic.

>>nodeso+(OP)
Ha. That counts the cents, though, I assume? I didn't think Hashicorp was that big, right?

>>nodeso+(OP)
Original post: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1964785527741427940

> I get asked the same about terminals all the time. “How will you turn this into a business? What’s the monetization strategy?” The monetization strategy is that my bank account has 3 commas mate.

>>losved+Q1
Shockingly I believe billionaire with a B. They timed the acquisition nearly perfect in terms of market conditions. Tres comma club!!!

>>losved+Q1
Hashicorp was sold for 6.5B to IBM.

Another thing - when it went public it was valued at 13B and Hashimoto owned 8.5% of it according to the filing.

So, depending on when he sold or converted his shares it is pretty plausible that he got a billion.

>>losved+Q1
was that big

>>maxmoe+72
tres commas and doors that go like this

chad

>>nodeso+73
Loving the idea that he got a bank transfer for $1b and it’s still just sitting there in his checking account.

>>bombca+D71
I would assume it's not sitting in his checking account. He hopefully has wealth advisors; earning interest, investments, tax strategies. Mitchell is super smart, so almost certainly not sitting in a checking account.