Doshi: Mighty was abandoned because single-threaded JavaScript capped its potential
Suhail Doshi · The AI-First Graphics Editor - with Suhail Doshi of Playground AI · Jan 2, 2024 · at 5:42
Suhail Doshi, founder of Mixpanel and Playground AI, discusses shutting down Mighty, his startup that streamed web browsers from centralized data centers.
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“One of the problems with Mighty was that JavaScript is single threaded in the browser. And what we learned, you know, the reason, reason why we kind of abandoned Mighty was because I didn't believe we could make a new kind of computer. We could have made some kind of enterprise business, probably could made, could have made maybe a lot of money, but it wasn't going to be what I hoped it was going to be.”
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