I would assume it will need investors to take a piece of the ownership of the platform, which the platform can use to incentivize more development by the best content-providers and coders in the world. Problem is, if we were to go this route, it would cut against the decentralized nature of the platform.
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The general mindset from people on hive is to earn from the blockchain and not really invest into it. I think that we would need big players to actually be willing to invest outside money into it for it to be able to evolve.