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Founder and CEO of Micro1, a startup that supplies expert human data and talent for training AI models and competes with Mercor in that market.
The Spirit Airlines bankruptcy auction put a price on a defunct company's internal records. The union's objection shows the scrubbing standard was written for customers, not staff.
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Three AI data suppliers have pushed the price of a bankrupt airline's files from $7.5 million to $12.5 million in an auction with no comparables, and the court-appointed privacy ombudsman has not yet examined the new top bidder.
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Micro1's late $12.5 million counter says the auction underpriced it. Either way, a liquidated airline's Teams archive now has a comparable, and every trustee's advisor has the number.
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Spirit Airlines' archive of emails, Teams logs and source code drew three bidders in bankruptcy court. A judge rules on September 9 on whether the workforce inside it can be de-identified.
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The labeling startup went from $100M to $500M gross run rate, per TechCrunch. The take-rate arithmetic in that same disclosure does not reconcile, which deserves more attention than the growth curve.
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Micro1's late $12.5 million topping bid for Spirit Airlines' internal records puts a number on operational archives. Every company with decades of email now has a valuation problem and a consent problem.
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