Post by Mike EasterThat sounds like a Brave business model to me.
I found an article separate from Brave's which went into extensive
detail on the Brave biz model, but didn't provide me w/ a 'bottom line'
-- whether or not it was profitable. It is one thing to have venture
capital angels and a lot of 'customers', but somewhere along the way you
have to actually make a 'profit'.
This article implies that they are profitable, but it is possible that
the 'valuation' is based on what the venture capital stock is 'worth'
(whether it is profitable or not).
A different article:
https://medium.a41.io/web3-bat-series-3-brave-browsers-valuation-compared-to-opera-and-firefox-17d4faf39ea8
Post by Mike EasterThis article examines the revenue models of Brave Browser, Opera, and
Firefox, highlighting the differences in their sources of income and
average revenue per user.
1) Opera and Firefox generate most of their revenue from royalties
for using Google as their default search engine.
3) Compared to Opera and Firefox, the current value of Brave seems to
be around $500 million.
That article has a TL;DR section, but one really needs to read the
entire article to get the full picture comparing the 3 browsers, as they
are VERY different.
The article is 'cautiously optimistic' about Brave's potential for a
progressively profitable future and valuation depending on the famous
'future events'.
Altho' I've never used Brave, I feel 'positively' about their privacy
orientation, not so much about the 'complexity' of their ideas.
Post by Mike EasterWritten in JavaScript, Swift, C++
Engines Blink, V8, (WebKit on iOS)
Operating system
Windows 10 or later
macOS 10.15 or later
Linux
Android 8.0 or later
iOS 15.0 or later
Platform x86, x86-64, IA-32 (Windows, Linux, macOS), ARM, AArch64 (Android, iOS)
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Mike Easter