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kay_mulan"People sometimes ask us what our name means! It was a silly suggestion during the brainstorming process that we wound up falling in love with. We decided that if bandwidth is a measure of how much data you can transfer, dreamwidth is a measure of how much creativity you can transfer. (Okay, and it wound up being one of our only ideas that we could still get the domain for. We couldn't afford to buy a domain off someone.) As a style note for those of you who care about that sort of thing, it's all one word, with no capital letter in the middle: Dreamwidth, not DreamWidth or Dream Width. (We won't beat you with wet noodles if you stick the capital or space in, though.)
Who owns Dreamwidth, and how do you make money?
Dreamwidth-the-service is run by Dreamwidth Studios, LLC, a Maryland-registered limited liability company wholly (and privately) owned by me and [staff profile] mark, incorporated in 2008. We're the only owners: we've never taken any venture capital or given up any equity in the company, and we never will. (We have very strong opinions on how a lot of the tech industry works and how the venture capital model, especially when combined with the advertising model, can create perverse incentives for social sites to treat their users badly, but that's a rant for a different morning.)
Not only have we not taken any venture capital, we display zero advertising on Dreamwidth, and we don't have paid partnerships or sell or rent your data in any way."
Who owns Dreamwidth, and how do you make money?
Dreamwidth-the-service is run by Dreamwidth Studios, LLC, a Maryland-registered limited liability company wholly (and privately) owned by me and [staff profile] mark, incorporated in 2008. We're the only owners: we've never taken any venture capital or given up any equity in the company, and we never will. (We have very strong opinions on how a lot of the tech industry works and how the venture capital model, especially when combined with the advertising model, can create perverse incentives for social sites to treat their users badly, but that's a rant for a different morning.)
Not only have we not taken any venture capital, we display zero advertising on Dreamwidth, and we don't have paid partnerships or sell or rent your data in any way."
