I'm a Proton customer and other than some UX improvements I'm not missing any big features. This idea they need more velocity is a failure in management.
That's enough momentum to coast on for a very long time, especially since their whole deal is that they're owned by a nonprofit and don't even have shareholders to pressure them.
They really had to nothing and they'd won, the only way to lose in a situation like that is... exactly this. Andy could have probably just sat on his ass for 20 years like Gabe Newell and probably been able to buy a similar yacht at the end of it.
"had" is the right word.
Entrepreneurship isn't about building a company or even making money anymore, it's about the prestige of announcing that you either got into a selective incubator or that you raised. Minds corrupted by the panopticon.
What I can’t tolerate is if they stop putting security first, which it sounds like they are under Yen’s leadership.