{"id":8453,"date":"2022-12-29T08:37:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T07:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/29\/mastodon-founder-says-investors-lining-up-since-elon-musks-twitter-takeover\/"},"modified":"2022-12-29T08:37:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T07:37:29","slug":"mastodon-founder-says-investors-lining-up-since-elon-musks-twitter-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/29\/mastodon-founder-says-investors-lining-up-since-elon-musks-twitter-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastodon founder says investors lining up since Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eugen Rochko has \u2018offers of hundreds of thousands of dollars\u2019 from Silicon Valley private equity firms<\/p>\n<p>The founder of Mastodon has said he has rejected approaches from more than five US-based investors, as the Twitter rival grows in popularity after Elon Musk\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/17\/elon-musk-twitter-closes-offices-loyalty-oath-resignations\">chaotic debut<\/a> as a social media owner.<\/p>\n<p>Eugen Rochko, who launched the open-source social network in 2016, told the Financial Times he had received the offers from Silicon Valley private equity firms to put \u201chundreds of thousands of dollars\u201d into the product.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/dec\/28\/mastodon-founder-elon-musk-twitter-takeover\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2a100149f2a36db1d7669071f87e197d4876912d\/0_166_5000_3002\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0f536e48e566d52afd433e8ed5d42fb5\" title=\"Mastodon founder says investors lining up since Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter takeover\" \/>Eugen Rochko has \u2018offers of hundreds of thousands of dollars\u2019 from Silicon Valley private equity firms<br \/>\nThe founder of Mastodon has said he has rejected approaches from more than five US-based investors, as the Twitter rival grows in popularity after Elon Musk\u2019s chaotic debut as a social media owner.<br \/>\nEugen Rochko, who launched the open-source social network in 2016, told the Financial Times he had received the offers from Silicon Valley private equity firms to put \u201chundreds of thousands of dollars\u201d into the product. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugen Rochko has \u2018offers of hundreds of thousands of dollars\u2019 from Silicon Valley private equity firms The founder of Mastodon has said he has rejected approaches from more than five US-based investors, as the Twitter rival grows in popularity after Elon Musk\u2019s chaotic debut as a social media owner. Eugen Rochko, who launched the open-source &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/29\/mastodon-founder-says-investors-lining-up-since-elon-musks-twitter-takeover\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mastodon founder says investors lining up since Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter takeover<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8453"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}