So almost $40 million in all as of 9 months ago (maybe more since then?)…
“In total, $242,129 has been funded for the development of hifi project”
I’m sure they have a few employees to pay and maybe a building, server space, etc.

So almost $40 million in all as of 9 months ago (maybe more since then?)…
“In total, $242,129 has been funded for the development of hifi project”
I’m sure they have a few employees to pay and maybe a building, server space, etc.
So probably you are just trolling with the initial title
but lets dicuss and break that number a bit down .
Lets do the math and theorize what exactly is going on:
Then we have to take note that some investments from 2013-2015 probably are hitting or have hit their Payback period. So thats 10+ mil going back to the investors over 2016-2018. Highly likely the 22 mil was used to do this gradually. So that 40 mil would technically be as much as what the current investment is at, as in 22 mil… minus 4 years of development time. Using averages they probably only have 1-2 years of funds left at the rate they are going without profit, until they hit payback period first for that 10mil, then 22mil period hitting up. Periods them selves are no public (even within a company) so the above values are my throw-values having been in a company with venture investment a year before, explaing the concept to me why they were firing coworkers.
That is most likely the reason why they are pushing for HFC release and ramping up optimization and graphics updates: Because 2018 will be the make-it-or-break-it phase of Hifi.
If it succeeds, more investment to pay off existing payback periods, and keep the ball rolling to reach a break-even to not require consistant investment.
On the code which we the community bid on. Its not really the code it self as most of that work is done by people bidding on the worklist… but instead hifi employees and contractors. Even the top 5 commiters on github aint worklist people. Top 20, only David is there who frequents worklist. And he made 22% of total worklist reward. thoys is the second, but he is now a contractor too. I wouldnt use it as an indicator of only development work. Its mostly for outsourced work.