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I wish there were some kind of public database that allowed easy lookup of whether a given company is owned by a private equity firm.
by ekropotin 9mo ago
I wish there were some kind of public database that allowed easy lookup of whether a given company is owned by a private equity firm.
- deleted 9mo ago[deleted]
- encrypted_bird 9mo agoI agree! I think this kind of resource would be very useful to a lot of people!
- tartoran 9mo agoI’d happily pay for a tool that lets me opt out of being slowly nickel-and-dimed by entities optimized for short-term yield. This feels like infrastructure: a small amount of collective effort that gives individuals leverage again. Visibility is the lever. And it could be done, it's just more organizing and involvement in local politics. The information already exists, it’s just effectively invisible, and a small translation layer could collapse it into a one-second answer, letting people avoid operators with a predictable extractive playbook, with the only real challenge being the constant, boring maintenance in an environment designed for churn and opacity. Eventually this should revolve around organizing and politics to make a difference.
- MarkusAllen 9mo ago[dead]
- tartoran 9mo agoIdentifying them at least it's a better thing than not. The lock-in challenge can be solved too, also through organizing, activism and politics.
- nerdsniper 9mo agoAre you using LLM's to help write these comments?
- gardnr 9mo ago> Questions to ask
- neilv 9mo agoIt should be integrated with the ways that people find those businesses, including maps, Web search, and "AI chat".
- MarkusAllen 9mo ago[dead]