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I’m not going to argue, and I think I may have made a similar point if I had come across my comment, but that’s why I chose to say “significantly”. Any startup could certainly “use it now”, but the higher your valuation the higher the scrutiny and history is littered with companies that had to close shop once it was discovered they were cheating. You can probably get away with it when small, probably weather the storm if you’re big, but in between is a danger zone.



You are right.

Being illegal didn’t stop Uber, nor Airbnb, nor a bunch of other companies and services.

If you grow fast enough, the growth becomes so valuable that no one really wants to (or maybe can?) stop you.

If you are small, nobody cares.

And like you said, in the middle is a lot more dangerous.




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