"...you become vulnerable to company B that was willing to take crappy VC $$$ and is now able to kick your ass on price, right down to the freemium, eyeballs-are-value goose-egg giveaway."
If that's physically possible, if price is the differentiator, you probably don't need to be in the business anyway. (Now, I'm not saying that you're wrong, in most cases, but....)
If that's physically possible, if price is the differentiator, you probably don't need to be in the business anyway. (Now, I'm not saying that you're wrong, in most cases, but....)