Will HN be acquired by a company and turned into a faux marketing platform? I sure hope not. This would be best answered by ycombinator staff and investors.

Will HN be acquired by a company and turned into a faux marketing platform? I sure hope not. This would be best answered by ycombinator staff and investors. Perhaps they already have a vision and mission statement that addresses this on the site somewhere. Slashdot AFAIK was only a news discussion site. YCombinator is a seed funding org [1] and likely benefits from having this platform to launch its investments and potentially provide a crowd-sourced think tank. What is the average logevity of a seed funding org? [1] - https://www.ycombinator.com/about/ https://www.ycombinator.com/about/