Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies

Just because a startup fails doesn’t mean it can’t cash out big. According to a report by Forbes , defunct companies are selling their digital footprints to AI companies as training data—and making real money from it. Shanna Johnson, the CEO of now-defunct software company cielo24, told the publication that she was able to sell every Slack message, internal email and Jira ticket as training data f