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Re:Silicon Valley IT Administrator and Friends Charged in In... by WheelsAtLarge on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:31AM (#21822113)
Successful entrepreneurs break the rules all the time. They just make sure they are not the type that will send them to jail. The perfect examples are Uber and Facebook. I'm sure their founders broke the rules left and right, and we've all read about some of the cases, as they grew their startups. The difference is that they were sure not to break the ones that got them in legal trouble.
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Re:Silicon Valley IT Administrator and Friends Charged in In... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @01:30AM (#21822377)
Kind of. Uber's a bad example - that company turned breaking the law into a business model, using investment money to move fast and keep the lawmen at bay.
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Re:Silicon Valley IT Administrator and Friends Charged in In... by ct520 on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @09:31AM (#21825173)
IMO I agree with your statement but I would not say they just make sure they are not the type that will send them to jail. More along the lines as - when they do take a risk that could line them in jail they are more prepared / smarter then the average criminal and avoid jail. (Civil lawsuits more likely)
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