As someone else said, you have to remain 100% private. The second you become publicly traded, that’s it.

Even then, if you want to make a difference in an established industry, you all but require preexisting deep pockets or some extremely disruptive technology that can’t be easily copied.

You then have to remain steadfast in the face of the ridiculous money that will be dangled in front of you to be bought out.

There’s a lot of stars that need to align.

Hopefully this actually leads to something lasting, but I don’t have high hopes considering how Europe is getting dragged atm