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by 5636588 732 days ago
A nonprofit overseeing a for-profit arm, where have I seen this before?
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Plenty of places -- it's not an especially rare model.
Yes it is common for a charity to own a business. The corporate profits are used to fund the education or social welfare mission.
I think it was a dig at OpenAI
(silently acknowledges that this is a rhetorical question rather than a brainstorming prompt)
BBC Studios / BBC America
Mozilla
IKEA?
Same thought I had, though it seems more like a tax-dodge for IKEA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA#Financial_information
TIL Ikea is technically non-profit.

That’s insane

The NFL used to be a non-profit with the teams paying tax on their profits. It's since changed.
Rolex? They take $10 of cheap metal, sell it for $10k, and use the profits to fund the charity.
Novo Nordisk would be the biggest example I'm aware of
Mozilla and OpenAI.