<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brongondwana</author><text>Perfectly legitimate question - and I don&amp;#x27;t think you should have been downvoted for asking.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re entirely funded by our customers, and fully self-bootstrapped.  We have no debts to outside parties.&lt;p&gt;We have 8 owners, 7 of which work in the business and the 8th is the brother of one of the founders (and only owns a couple of percent).&lt;p&gt;Source: I&amp;#x27;m CEO.  Have worked here since 2004, through the Opera acquisition (I moved to Norway for nearly 2 years) and back.  We&amp;#x27;ve controlled our growth such that we keep our spending under our income - I know, what a shocking idea in current day!</text><parent_chain><item><author>dheera</author><text>How are they funded, and are they profitable?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been using Google Apps for email for 10+ years and I don&amp;#x27;t want my e-mail provider to die at the whim of some Sand Hill investor&amp;#x27;s emotions at a bay area house party.</text></item><item><author>tiffanyh</author><text>Fastmail.com continues to delivery great innovations and open sources much of their work.&lt;p&gt;They are the company largely behind this, check them out.&lt;p&gt;(I&amp;#x27;m not affiliated in any way to them)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JMAP – a modern email open standard</title><url>https://jmap.io/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>calvinmorrison</author><text>Funded? by payments from customers. FastMail has been around longer than Gmail and before the endless startup hype cycles</text><parent_chain><item><author>dheera</author><text>How are they funded, and are they profitable?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been using Google Apps for email for 10+ years and I don&amp;#x27;t want my e-mail provider to die at the whim of some Sand Hill investor&amp;#x27;s emotions at a bay area house party.</text></item><item><author>tiffanyh</author><text>Fastmail.com continues to delivery great innovations and open sources much of their work.&lt;p&gt;They are the company largely behind this, check them out.&lt;p&gt;(I&amp;#x27;m not affiliated in any way to them)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JMAP – a modern email open standard</title><url>https://jmap.io/</url></story>