Maybe spend a few minutes searching before throwing shade. Cynicism’s easy. Here’s what I found in about 3 minutes:
He founded the marine research non-profit Inkfish, and a custom yacht building company OceanCo that builds ships for it.
Depending on the source I’m finding that they have 3 ships/yachts in their fleet with a new one under construction, and the Leviathan has most or all of the normal luxury features swapped out for additional lab space, hospital, 3d printing and fabrication workshops. One of the ships carries a crew of 75 scientists.
Their mission statement includes the intent to share all their discoveries freely.
You can look up images of the ships. They look like what I’d expect of research vessels, not billionaire pleasure ships.
Additionally, I’m seeing that he also co-founded the “Heart of Racing” race team that raises money for childrens charities, he’s donated significant money to pediatric ICU in New Zealand (where he lives), and also co-founded foundry10 which is “a education research organization that funds and develops programs to improve youth learning.”
Again, I’m not saying the man’s a saint or our friend. Steam has a very positive track record, he is putting more resources into philanthropic endeavours than many others in his position, and he’s not crowing about it so much that everyone knows he’s doing the philanthropic shit.
At least one yacht out of how many does maybe some research, sorry dude, but that is a long stretch.
Maybe spend a few minutes searching before throwing shade. Cynicism’s easy. Here’s what I found in about 3 minutes:
He founded the marine research non-profit Inkfish, and a custom yacht building company OceanCo that builds ships for it.
Depending on the source I’m finding that they have 3 ships/yachts in their fleet with a new one under construction, and the Leviathan has most or all of the normal luxury features swapped out for additional lab space, hospital, 3d printing and fabrication workshops. One of the ships carries a crew of 75 scientists.
Their mission statement includes the intent to share all their discoveries freely.
You can look up images of the ships. They look like what I’d expect of research vessels, not billionaire pleasure ships.
Additionally, I’m seeing that he also co-founded the “Heart of Racing” race team that raises money for childrens charities, he’s donated significant money to pediatric ICU in New Zealand (where he lives), and also co-founded foundry10 which is “a education research organization that funds and develops programs to improve youth learning.”
Again, I’m not saying the man’s a saint or our friend. Steam has a very positive track record, he is putting more resources into philanthropic endeavours than many others in his position, and he’s not crowing about it so much that everyone knows he’s doing the philanthropic shit.