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They weren’t a corporation from the get-go though? They were a Y-Combinator project that became successful, and were eventually bought by Conde Nast (when the “sell-out” began, btw).

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I think profit was always the end goal, except for Aaron Swartz. They might not have been incorporated but the intent always seemed like profit.

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