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Re:State of Independent SaaS 2021 by xwdv on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:58PM (#26097760)
I am such a person. I could afford to work for years without money thanks to my high net worth and investments in the tech sector, and have over a decade of software development experience in building robust web scale applications.

Unfortunately, most potential co-founders write me off when they discover I’m ethically challenged.

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Re:State of Independent SaaS 2021 by withinboredom on Thursday February 11, 2021 @10:15AM (#26102291)
> most potential co-founders write me off when they discover I’m ethically challenged.

I would have loved to have come across this comment years ago. I was building a bit of awesome software that turned out to be "illegal" ("PayPal is a bank -- oh, you're a regulator? PayPal isn't a bank!" kind of illegal). It was really interesting, but my cofounder backed out once we ran into regulation designed to keep us out of the market. I wanted to keep going and pretend the regulation didn't exist/apply to us.

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Re:State of Independent SaaS 2021 by DiggyJohnson on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @11:35PM (#26098292)
What a fascinating response.
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Re:State of Independent SaaS 2021 by icedchai on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @10:18PM (#26097880)
How are you "ethically challenged"? And what prevents you from simply BSing them so they don't discover this?
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Re:State of Independent SaaS 2021 by ZephyrBlu on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @10:18PM (#26097879)
> ethically challenged

Is that like a euphemism for sociopath?

I'm being slightly facetious, but I don't really know what you mean by "ethically challenged".

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Re:State of Independent SaaS 2021 by casey77 on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @11:33PM (#26098284)
Probably a euphemism for worked at Facebook
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Re:State of Independent SaaS 2021 by harperlee on Thursday February 11, 2021 @09:03AM (#26101590)
Perhaps time in prison? In the sense that people assume having gone to prison is a challenge to the default assumption of whether you are a good person.
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