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Re:Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open sourc... by kvinogradov on Thursday February 26, 2026 @01:22PM (#47169909)
Not the former VC, but an active venture capitalist: https://kvinogradov.com. I earn money by investing in open source / AI / infra software startups, and I spend money by donating to nonprofit open source projects :-)

Also, it is not a VC who run things, but the team which consists of people with diverse backgrounds (founders/executives/devs x OSS/nonprofit) and the donor community (which everybody can join): https://endowment.dev/community/

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Re:Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open sourc... by verdverm on Thursday February 26, 2026 @01:26PM (#47169971)
It's the VC "class", similar to the Epstein Class, nowhere near as bad or vile, but have definitely been one of the primary reasons the wealth gap and inequality have risen and continue to rise
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Re:Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open sourc... by dewey on Thursday February 26, 2026 @01:53PM (#47170371)
With your strong feelings against VC, I hope you are aware that HN is the message board of one of the leading VC firms?

> but have definitely been one of the primary reasons the wealth gap and inequality have risen and continue to rise

That's a pretty big leap you are doing there.

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Re:Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open sourc... by verdverm on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:00PM (#47170480)
You can click my handle to see I've been a part of the HN community longer than yourself, I'm fully aware of the many associations

I have /rant'd on YC and the dilution of help to their startups after they stopped heeding their own advice to "do things that don't scale"

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Re:Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open sourc... by whit537 on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:03PM (#47170524)
> I've been a part of the HN community longer than

Dang, got me beat, too. :) gg

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Re:Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open sourc... by verdverm on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:12PM (#47170634)
It's not a competition, but it is faux pax for GGP to make the comment the way they did. I would hope you all would know that having been here more than a decade
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