Systemd founder and lead developer Lennart Poettering announced the creation of a new company called Amutable. The Amutable company being led by Chris Kühl (CEO), Christian Brauner (CTO) and Lennart Poettering (Chief Engineer) will be focused on delivering determinism and verifiable integrity to Linux systems.
Seed funding, then releasing a good foss tool, then extending it with extra “pay only” features, then selling to ossified old tech like IBM to cash out.
See Redhat/hashicorp/etc.