| ▲ | sonofhans 7 hours ago |
| No, they either agreed or fought the government. You’re allowed to fight governments. Mahatma Gandhi and Reverend King Jr did it, and they wrote about how to do it. You might lose sometimes, but my god, you can at least fight. |
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| ▲ | consp 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Neither of them had shareholders to please. |
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| ▲ | sega_sai 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I don't believe anthropic has shareholders either. It is not a public company | | |
| ▲ | sebastiennight 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | If you take investments, your investors will most likely own shares of the company (except in specific early-stage scenarios like YC's SAFE). Sometimes major investors will have board seats or voting shares. This happens in normal private companies, not just public ones. | |
| ▲ | cube00 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Still has private investors it can't ignore, until it can buy them out, but it can't do that until it starts turning over a profit. Even then it may not be able to get rid of them if they own enough of a share. |
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| ▲ | smartbit 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | They had citizens to please and society to take care of. |
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| ▲ | delaminator 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| They were both pushing on open doors |
