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Oh ffs, why do I even look into these things? I think I’m being harsh and then it’s always worse than I thought:
FairPhone has taken venture capital.
https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Crowd-Notification.pdf
They’ve been invested in by, among others, Invest-NL (currently three exits, all IPOs¹) and Quadia (also three exits, all acquisitions²).
I would just like it if for once – fucking once – it wasn’t just about making money.
*sigh*
¹ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/invest-nl/recent_investments
² https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/quadia/recent_investments
@aral Didn't they also recently descalate their mission, from "made with fair trade materials" to "we'll do a best effort to source fair trade materials if possible", IIRC?
@elrohir I don’t know, I haven’t been following that closely.
I’m just rather disappointed. But then again, what else is new? :)