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This is the kind of mean-spirited comment with very low content which has no place in this community.

Please, if all you have to offer is generalized negativity, don't comment.

The vast majority of cool, hip startups nowadays have absolutely no interest in profit or even simply revenue. Just gotta stack those users up.

While I hope we're a fun place to work, I'm even more concerned with building a scalable platform and a profitable business.

Avatars are just one of the many ways we're helping serve media for developers, brands and publishers. Fortunately, many of these same folks are also now using our API and other services, which we do in fact charge for.

Hey if Avatars is part of an onboarding process to a bigger overall revenue producing ecosystem, more power to ya, that's a creative marketing strategy. My reply wasn't to your product specifically, just to the parent's comment in general.

Oh yeah? Name three.

Umm...

Instagram

Foursquare (though it appears they've seen the light a few weeks back finally)

Color

AirTime

Path

There's five. I can continue.

You'll fold when someone reinvents investment funds?