We're already there. We have huge companies using elixir and phoenix, with phoenix powering the web platform for the majority of them. Several great case studies exist on elixir-lang.org if you're interested, ie:
And of course Bleacher Report, which has been on Phoenix since 2014, well before 1.0.
On the sponsorship side, DockYard invested in my work for the last six years where I spent the majority of the year working on oss, and I've just joined https://fly.io where I'll spend 85% of my time working on Phoenix and related libraries. So we are well covered on the corporate sponsorship side. We also have Michael Crumm on the Phoenix team who works at Cargo Sense, where they support a portion of his time working on LiveView. Of course it would be great for other large companies leveraging value out of our work to give back, but we're well established on the sponsorship side :)
It's worked out really well for us at PepsiCo, it's basically our go to for in house application development on the eCommerce side. We'll be hiring some elixir devs again soon.
We're not hiring any FTEs outside of the US yet, but we probably will in 2022. Keep an eye out, there should be some interesting stuff coming up in the future.
Pepsi: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/04/02/marketing-and-sales-...
Heroku: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2020/09/24/paas-with-elixir-at-...
Change.org https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2020/10/27/delivering-social-ch...
And of course Bleacher Report, which has been on Phoenix since 2014, well before 1.0.
On the sponsorship side, DockYard invested in my work for the last six years where I spent the majority of the year working on oss, and I've just joined https://fly.io where I'll spend 85% of my time working on Phoenix and related libraries. So we are well covered on the corporate sponsorship side. We also have Michael Crumm on the Phoenix team who works at Cargo Sense, where they support a portion of his time working on LiveView. Of course it would be great for other large companies leveraging value out of our work to give back, but we're well established on the sponsorship side :)