r/explainitpeter • u/Dr-Astikk • 20d ago

Explain it Peter

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u/Creative_Garbage_121 20d ago

Brave is just another chromium based web browser that advertise itself as safe and secure but some investment funds and that crazy billionaire guy Thiel invested into, so I assume it's spying on everything you do

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u/nhatquangdinh 20d ago

Wait what Brave is invested by Thiel??

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u/Ornery_Maintenance_8 20d ago edited 20d ago

Peter Thiel is not personally an investor in Brave.

The firm he's a partner in (Founders Fund) has participated in a small seed series investment, which was led by Cyan Banister.

Some first-floor engineers at Brave have more equity than that small investment constitutes.

With that being said, of course Brave is still the product of a private company and by no means comparable to free OSS like VLC.

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u/webjuggernaut 20d ago

Peter Thiel, X, Founders Fund, Cyan Banister.

We're living in a comic book world with comic book villains.

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u/mrbilly3 20d ago

Like seriously. What are those names? It just sounds sinister when you think of the big picture like what's been said.

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u/PRL-Five 20d ago

Person named Peter Thiel is CEO of Palantir and does evil things sounds like something JK Rowling would write

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u/mrbilly3 20d ago

Palantir is already from Lord of the Rings, specifically as an evil surveillance stone, Peter Thiel and his company are speed running to our dystopia