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Building in Public Is Not What It Used To Be

The VC Corner Freemium Intermediate

A useful counterweight that takes the copycat risk seriously in the AI era, when cloning a visible product is faster than ever. It argues that many founders stopped publishing metrics once revenue crossed a threshold worth cloning. Read it so your decision accounts for the real downside, not just the upside of attention.

• Copy risk rises sharply once you have traction worth cloning
• Some founders share early, then go quieter as numbers grow
• Match how much you reveal to how easily your current stage can be copied