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Konstantin Vinogradov
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Konstantin Vinogradov's personal blog at kvinogradov.com covers startups and economics. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Konstantin Vinogradov — VC investor in open source, AI, and infrastructure. Notes on venture capital investments, tech startups, open source and philanthropy.
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The endowment model is complementary to direct donations, which many of OSE donors make. For example, I did this a lot: https://kvinogradov.com/algo-sponsors . Some people do this privately, and the largest public case among our donors seems to be https://ziglang.org/news/300k-from-mitchellh/ It requires choosing projects, and most people don't have time for this. But the main problem is that such funding is simply…
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on “Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers”Submitted I algorithmically donated $5000 to Open Source as a story · 365 points
HN discussionThe best long-term protection from fraud and abuse are aligned incentives through skin in the game. That’s why we legally require all people in governance to be Members ($1000+/year donation). This is an important topic, and here you can find more context on this: https://kvinogradov.com/osendowment/
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on “Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers”Submitted Open Source can learn from universities to fix its funding as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI am one of https://wikimediaendowment.org/benefactors (donated years ago), and now I am totally unhappy with what is happening with Wikipedia. It has been an important lesson learned. To keep a nonprofit efficient and impactful, it is crucial for its governance to have skin in the game; otherwise, there will be no long-term alignment of interests. More details on why and how we implement this at the Open Source End…
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on “Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers”Here are more details on the story and thinking behind key features of the Open Source Endowment: https://kvinogradov.com/osendowment
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on “Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers”Not the former VC, but an active venture capitalist: https://kvinogradov.com . I earn money by investing in open source / AI / infra software startups, and I spend money by donating to nonprofit open source projects :-) Also, it is not a VC who run things, but the team which consists of people with diverse backgrounds (founders/executives/devs x OSS/nonprofit) and the donor community (which everybody can join): http…
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