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They support Ukraine, however, given the company spun out of Yandex, the latter is most certainly financially benefitting from their success, and is paying taxe

by u2315 4y ago

They support Ukraine, however, given the company spun out of Yandex, the latter is most certainly financially benefitting from their success, and is paying taxes that are funding the war. AFAIR, Yandex also has 2 director sits on Clickhouse board, although that could have changed.

MajimasEyepatch 4y ago
> ClickHouse, Inc. is a Delaware company with headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area. We have no operations in Russia, no Russian investors, and no Russian members of our Board of Directors. We do, however, have an incredibly talented team of Russian software engineers located in Amsterdam, and we could not be more proud to call them colleagues. From their "We Stand With Ukraine" page. [1] [1] https://clickhouse.com/blog/we-stand-with-ukraine https://clickhouse.com/blog/we-stand-with-ukraine
- u2315 4y ago
  That's interesting, thanks for clarifying. Yandex do show up as an investor in Crunchbase, including in their most recent Series B. The cited blog post says: > The formation of our company was made possible by an agreement under which Yandex NV, a Dutch company with operations in Russia While Yandex NV is registered in the Netherlands, it's pretty clear that Yandex NV is directly related to Yandex (specifically, according to Wikipedia, it's a holding company of Yandex). For those who don't know, Yandex is basically the Google of Russia and holds 42% of market share among search engines in Russia. The blog post does not seem to make any claims that Russia is not benefitting financially from the commercial success of Clickhouse. And given the above, such claim would unlikely be true. As such, I still think it's pretty much safe to assume that a portion of any $$$ paid to Clickhouse ultimately goes to fund the war and kill people. That said, I sincerely hope they could find a way to stop that flow of money from happening somehow, as otherwise it's a nice technology and a great technical team behind it...

by u2315 4y ago

MajimasEyepatch 4y ago

> ClickHouse, Inc. is a Delaware company with headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area. We have no operations in Russia, no Russian investors, and no Russian members of our Board of Directors. We do, however, have an incredibly talented team of Russian software engineers located in Amsterdam, and we could not be more proud to call them colleagues. From their "We Stand With Ukraine" page. [1] [1] https://clickhouse.com/blog/we-stand-with-ukraine https://clickhouse.com/blog/we-stand-with-ukraine

u2315 4y ago
That's interesting, thanks for clarifying. Yandex do show up as an investor in Crunchbase, including in their most recent Series B. The cited blog post says: > The formation of our company was made possible by an agreement under which Yandex NV, a Dutch company with operations in Russia While Yandex NV is registered in the Netherlands, it's pretty clear that Yandex NV is directly related to Yandex (specifically, according to Wikipedia, it's a holding company of Yandex). For those who don't know, Yandex is basically the Google of Russia and holds 42% of market share among search engines in Russia. The blog post does not seem to make any claims that Russia is not benefitting financially from the commercial success of Clickhouse. And given the above, such claim would unlikely be true. As such, I still think it's pretty much safe to assume that a portion of any $$$ paid to Clickhouse ultimately goes to fund the war and kill people. That said, I sincerely hope they could find a way to stop that flow of money from happening somehow, as otherwise it's a nice technology and a great technical team behind it...