Thinking of megacorps as anything other than slimy, amoral, scum honestly requires superhuman levels of mental gymnastics.

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wolvesechoes 8 hours ago | parent [-]

And thinking that megacorps are in any meaningful way different than your last underdog startup darling is another level of copium.

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Ygg2 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Sure. But a startup could, in theory end up profitable and self-sufficient without a public offering. It's not impossible.

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wolvesechoes 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Startups are about making money, take they capital with a promise of making more capital, and the logic of capital is uniform, no matter where it comes from. It always, without exception, will end up the same, with the only difference how much time it will take.

	▲	Ygg2 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's why I said in theory. Consider that at some point Valve was a startup.