Private companies are reportedly being offered millions for workplace data

Sam Parr was reportedly offered $600,000 to sell his company’s data to Micro One, but he turned down the offer despite finding the business model highly tempting. The company is described as approaching private businesses for Slack, Notion and email data in exchange for six- or seven-figure payments.

The data is said to be anonymized and sold to OpenAI and other parties, potentially for AI training or related uses. Instagram advertisements reportedly offer between $1 million and $2 million, although the exact identity and practices of the referenced data broker, as well as the representativeness of those offers, remain unclear.