"the company looked at the history of social media over the past decade and didn’t like what it saw… existing companies that are only model motivated by profit and just insane user growth, and are willing to tolerate and amplify really toxic content because it looks like engagement… "
Ahh, that was just me misunderstanding what patron meant, my bad.
It looks like on blender’s website there’s 6 entities on there, and one of them does seem to be an individual fwiw. Here’s his website: https://aras-p.info/.
The rest all seem to be corporations though - meta, aws, some game company I’ve never heard of, AMD, and epic.