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| short_description: Computers belong to you! We develop tech to give them back. |
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| # About |
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| FUTO is an organization dedicated to giving people back control over their technology. |
| Through in-house engineering, investments, grants, and public education efforts, we build and fund software that challenges the dominance of Big Tech. |
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| We believe the free market has failed to check the power of the tech oligopoly. |
| Monopolies have consolidated control over how information flows, and most users have lost sovereignty over their own devices. |
| Software creates powerful economies of scale that favor tech megacorps who then use that power to manipulate human behavior for profit. |
| Neither traditional capitalism nor existing open source efforts have solved this problem. |
| In many cases the reasons are obvious: a significant part of the most important FOSS foundations and projects are themselves funded by the tech oligopoly. |
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| ## FUTO takes a different approach to solving this problem. |
| Founded in 2021 by Silicon Valley veteran Eron Wolf, FUTO operates without reliance on existing tech companies or venture capital firms. |
| We are not expecting quick profits. We will never cash out with a sale to a megacorporation the moment our technology begins to catch on. |
| We will focus entirely on the mission to recreate the spirit of freedom, innovation, and self-reliance that defined the early American tech industry. |
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| Visit us at: https://futo.tech/ |
