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Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by thefourthchime »

The TLDR is that the OP thinks it's very "sus" that one of the founders for Reddit's latest Series F round is hard to find any information for.

- The investor, Khaira Capital is run by "Jivteshwar Khaira" who is allegedly an 18yo "Wonderkid", his linked in just has a picture of a Rolex watch

- The other "employees" of the company are also blank

- The website is mostly blank

- There are a few news articles about him, but two are duplicates, the one I read sounds like it was a PR publication.

- There is someone called "Sukhpal Singh Khaira" who is allegedly a drug kingpin, no idea if they are related.

As someone else said, it sounds like a wealthy family office.

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by filiphorvat »

loceng wrote: post #12
version_five wrote: post #2

It's [removed] now, what did it say?

Reveddit.com for all your deleted user/comment needs; just copy/paste the URL of the comment/thread/user. Edit to add: Huh, it's not showing. Normally it would - https://www.reveddit.com/v/conspiracytheories/comments/up1cw...

Unddit works:

https://www.unddit.com/r/conspiracytheories/comments/up1cwf/...

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by cute_boi »

andi999 wrote: post #7
encryptluks2 wrote: post #3

One thing I've noticed with reddit is they constantly push violence to the frontpage and encourage it. Someone calls you a name or uses a racist word, here watch this video of someone getting beat nearly to death for speech and here are 1000 top comments as to why that is perfectly okay and acceptable. I get the feeling the police state actually wants more violence and crime and therefore encourages it quite frequent…

I never see this. Maybe you subscribe to different channels?

Browse to r/worldnews... And that subreddit generally comes on frontpage.

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by jhugo »

t0mas88 wrote: post #10
version_five wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

User peppustimbus replied with the archive version but is shadowbanned. This is the link: https://web.archive.org/web/20220513210317/https://old.reddi... This could just be a wealthy family office, I have first hand knowledge of one such company that would have no website or information online other than a few things in filings but manages several billion dollars.

But for most of those there is some information on the family where the money came from. Like they ran some kind of business. In this case the only information to be found on the family is that someone with that family name is a drug dealer. Makes it even more suspicious where the money came from.

Another person with that family name is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. A lot of family names are pretty common, it turns out.

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by mikeryan »

t0mas88 wrote: post #10
version_five wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

User peppustimbus replied with the archive version but is shadowbanned. This is the link: https://web.archive.org/web/20220513210317/https://old.reddi... This could just be a wealthy family office, I have first hand knowledge of one such company that would have no website or information online other than a few things in filings but manages several billion dollars.

But for most of those there is some information on the family where the money came from. Like they ran some kind of business. In this case the only information to be found on the family is that someone with that family name is a drug dealer. Makes it even more suspicious where the money came from.

I also know of a family fund with no public presence that’s an active, large investor with zero presence. You google their name and get results very similar to googling Kharia Capital (I’d say the name of the fund I know, but the lead is a friend and I want to respect his privacy). I’m sure many, if not most family funds do share more info but in this case it could be one who doesn’t.

I guess what I’m saying is that you can’t assume it’s somehow nefarious based on this profile. Also at least one result for Khaira explicitly says it’s a family fund.

https://app.dealroom.co/investors/khaira_capital

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by benrapscallion »

thefourthchime wrote: post #21

The TLDR is that the OP thinks it's very "sus" that one of the founders for Reddit's latest Series F round is hard to find any information for. - The investor, Khaira Capital is run by "Jivteshwar Khaira" who is allegedly an 18yo "Wonderkid", his linked in just has a picture of a Rolex watch - The other "employees" of the company are also blank - The website is mostly blank - There are a few news articles about him,…

FWIW, Khaira (more commonly spelled Khera) is a common North Indian surname. So simply googling Khaira and connecting to any other Khaira is in some ways like googling John Smith.
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