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Turns out if you don't have shareholders to report to, you can focus on making things better for consumers rather than squeezing every last penny out of them.
Right? Damn. That's why private companies are better
Whooaahhhhhhhhh there, bucko, let's slow the fuck down there. There are PLENTY of terrible private companies out there! OpenAI, Anthropic, Pulte, and Kiewit come to mind.
That sounds like most of the terrible private companies are just companies that want to go public.