A failed startup's codebase
Tens of thousands of dollars per codebase
Dated 14 Sep 2026Source checked 14 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: reported
In the source's own words
“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 Oct 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)
- Failed startups (codebases) to Turing: Five to ten failed-startup codebases bought for AI training data.
- micro1 and unnamed sellers: transaction, company data (unspecified)
- Turing and five to ten failed startups (unnamed): transaction, source code (failed-startup codebases)
What it is about
Figures it counts in
- $1,579 per repositorySource code, sales that happened, per repository
- 25Prices per repository, per reviewed change, per token and per company code base behind every valuation of a codebase
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