Who is Behind SN? Is this a Company, an opensource project or what? Who decide? \ stacker news ~culture

Who is Behind SN? Is this a Company, an opensource project or what? Who decide?

676 sats \ 5 comments \ @piecover 13 Jan culture

It's a company from Austin, Texas. It was founded by Keyan Kousha (k00b).

They have received funding from many investors, and it was recently valued at $25M.

https://bitcoinnews.com/stacker-news-raise/

Stacker.News, a young startup based in Austin, Texas has announced it successfully closed its seed round.

The lead investors are Max Webster of Hivemind Ventures, NYDIG founder and executive chairman Ross Stevens, Raymond Tonsing of Caffeinated Capital, Mishti Sharma with Caffeinated’s Collective Fund, and Steve Lee filling up the rest. The seed round boosts the fresh venture with $1.25 million of risk capital pushing its post-money valuation to 25 million USD.

Founded by Keyan Kousha, former technical leader at data transport and streaming technology company Aspera (now IBM) Stacker News aims to become the next Reddit on the Lightning Network.

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @piecover OP 13 Jan

Good to know, thank you!

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 13 Jan

It's a company and an open source project.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Neo 13 Jan

I hope someone forks it and removes the recent added subcategories. I'm looking for signal. Enough noise already on the internet.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 14 Jan

Did you try to mute territories?