Turing and five to ten failed startups (unnamed): transaction, source code (failed-startup codebases)
average in the tens of thousands of dollars
Dated 14 Sep 2026Source checked 14 Sep 2026Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: self-reported
In the source's own words
“Jonathan Siddharth, the CEO of Turing, which provides human experts and training data to AI developers, told The Information that his company had bought five to ten failed-startup codebases, paying an average in the tens of thousands of dollars for each.”
Where it was read
Fortune, checked 14 Sep 2026
Everything read from this source (10)Archived copy, 6 Oct 2026
Also read from the same source
- Spirit Airlines' corporate records archive, micro1's late competing proposal after the auction (in-house de-identification)
- Thirteen years of a closed company's Slack, tickets, email and drives (cielo24)
- A shut-down startup's archive (SimpleClosure's first deals)
- A failed startup's codebase
- Failed startups (codebases) to Turing: Five to ten failed-startup codebases bought for AI training data.
- micro1 and unnamed sellers: transaction, company data (unspecified)
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