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Despite remote work and the economic downturn, some companies look to London for expansion

TechCrunch

Compared to many other startups and scaleups, Proton has taken on very little venture capital (VC) funding in its nine-year history — aside from a small $2 million seed funding round back in 2015 and a $500,000 equity crowdfunder the previous year, Proton has managed to grow mostly through people paying money for its service.

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#define CTO OpenAI

Greg Brockman

Formation # In August 2015, OpenAI was just an idea articulated over a dinner with Elon Musk , Sam Altman , Ilya Sutskever , me, and a handful of others. Founding team # Because Ilya was still at Google, he was unable to help recruit. I was new to AI, and it wasn’t clear how to find and recruit great researchers.