Investment
by line
Each line is something built and kept running: a company, a licence, a body of research or a practice. The bar shows the years it has been active. A hatched bar means the start year is approximate or the work was groundwork. Open a line for the full record.
| Line | Since | Base | Years active | Open |
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Returns
What the investment has produced so far, counted where the platforms publish the numbers. Platform statistics were captured in July 2026 and will drift.
Year
by year
Scroll to move through the record: each card is a year in which something new was started or committed to.
This page borrows the format of a national sports funder's investment table, but swaps money for what can be checked: start dates, places, licences and published output.
A line is included when there is a public record of it being started and sustained: a company page, a licence certificate, a repository, a paper or a profile. Start years come from those records. Where his own posts disagree, as with Budots Media's founding (2014 on the company page, 2015 in some Medium posts), the earlier documented year is used and the bar is not hatched. Where a start is only approximate, such as aerial work beginning “circa 2014”, the bar is hatched.
The returns are platform counts, not valuations. Sketchfab, Observable and Google Scholar publish their numbers; the 1,000-site figure and the 600 GB offer are his own statements, cited as such. Nothing here is a financial figure or a forecast.
Sources
Every figure and date on this page links to one of these.
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