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Day 2 of asking:

Who actually owns ?

Not some ambiguous statement about Jay Graber and the employees. We know the company has outside investors.

Who are all of Bluesky's shareholders and in what percentages?

We now have learned it matters very much who owns the social media platforms we use. Users and the media must demand transparency from Bluesky on this issue.

It's simple. Who all owns stock and options in the company? Are there any other equity obligations like convertable debt?

For more on this discussion see yesterday's thread:

mastodon.online/@mastodonmigra

If you are on Bluesky feel free to ask them who owns the company. See if you can get a straight answer.

Thanks to @bespacific we have some information on who actually owns . And it is pretty illuminating. 👀

Contrary to what the company presents in it's public facing statement that it is owned by Jay Graber and the employees, here is some information on who actually owns Bluesky:

accessipos.com/bluesky-stock-i

ref: newsie.social/@bespacific/1137

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Access IPOs · Bluesky Stock: Who Owns Bluesky, and will it IPO?Explore opportunities to own Bluesky stock before the Bluesky IPO. Follow along as the startup grows into a public company.

@bespacific

"On October 24th, 2024, the company announced a Series A funding round that raised $15 million. Series A investors included Blockchain Capital, Alumni Ventures, True Ventures, SevenX, Amir Shevat (Darkmode Ventures), and Joe Beda (Kubernetes).

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@bespacific

"They join 2023 Seed round investors Bob Young (Red Hat), Amjad Masad (Replit), Heather Meeker, Jeremy Johnson, Outset Capital, Mana Industries, Automattic, Protocol Labs, Katelyn Donnelly, Ali Evans, Stav Erez, Kris Nóva, Brad Fitzpatrick, Atlas Benjelloun, and Abdul Ly. Shevat and Beda invested in both rounds."

And Bluesky is about to close on a funding round led by Bain Capital that will value the company at $700M.

businessinsider.com/x-competit

So not just Jay and the employees. 🤦‍♂️

Business Insider · X competitor Bluesky's valuation jumps to around $700 millionBy Ben Bergman

@mastodonmigration The terminology they use (saying it is owned by “Jay Graeber & the Bluesky Team”) is vague enough that it may not even include employees. I think “the Bluesky Team” is just code for “a few other executives and a bunch of venture capital firms”, but people interpret it as meaning it’s some kind of worker owned cooperative.

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@f4rr3r

Similar in this respect to saying the network is distributed.

When you need to parse the specific language used to identify in what manner someone is being misleading it tells you all you need to know about them.