[epoberezkin]

Disclaimer: I'm the founder.

I generally believe that for-profit, venture funded company, will some IP help in non-profit, has much better chances of delivering privacy preserving service.

Initially, in 2020, I thought that SimpleX Chat should be non-profit, but then after a long chat with Joseph Jacks in April 2020, who is evangelising VC investment in decentralized open-source tech for a long time, he both convinced me that 1) a dual model is better both for the users and for the scale of change that can be achieved 2) to make a dive into it - the idea at the time seemed too crazy to do something about it for real.

So here we are, with a for-profit company building a privacy-preserving communication network, that will have more than one provider by design.