alt Hacker NewsThey unfortunately recently (last few years) sold out to private equity (which tends to glaze over fundamentals and tries to pump out massive content using previous brand quality to give it credence), so beware of quality in more recent vids:
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0xDEAFBEAD • 07/31/2025
What's the easiest way to reliably check if a Youtube channel was sold to private equity? Is that info always a matter of public record?
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Yesterday I was reading comments about how the market could pay for research and avoid the “distorting effects” of public funding.
Is there any way to get a better outcome for the public here, or is “do good stuff then sell out” the way it’s always going to be?