@didier_lopes: Today is bittersweet. After almost six years, we are winding down OpenBB. I started it over Christmas 2020 with a simpl…
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After almost six years, OpenBB is winding down due to lack of product-market fit, but its product suite is being open-sourced under a permissive license to preserve the vision and allow continued use.
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Today is bittersweet.
After almost six years, we are winding down OpenBB.
I started it over Christmas 2020 with a simple idea: firms and individuals should own the platform where they do research and make decisions.
We didn’t find PMF to make it a sustainable business.
But the vision is inevitable, and what our team built deserves to keep existing.
So we’re open-sourcing the entire OpenBB product suite under a permissive license.
I wrote more about it here: https://openbb.co/blog/openbb-belongs-to-everyone…
(the picture was taken the first time I met my parents-in-law, which coincides with when Gamestonk Terminal went first viral and I spent all my time fixing/improving it)
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