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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: >
by 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...