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For every publicly traded business, or those that are set to become publicly traded, the product is "shareholder value". All of them. Always.
They're in the business of selling stocks now.
Exactly.
For house users, they create shareholder value by selling ads and by curating their experience in future ways that manipulate them in one way or another.
But for API users, it's murky how to create shareholder value, but one obvious way to do it is to charge a shitload for the API. If that results in an exodus from API users, well, no worries because they weren't creating value anyway.