I'm not Warren, but I would assume that the threshold scales so as not to stifle competition by creating very high barriers to entry. 5000 people isn't a lot pe

I'm not Warren, but I would assume that the threshold scales so as not to stifle competition by creating very high barriers to entry. 5000 people isn't a lot per se, especially with the internet. Imposing very heavy handed regulation on budding small companies in the exact same we one would impose it on Wells Fargo, Google, or Amazon, just serves to entrench established businesses and push industries further towards oligopolies. Idk, just my $0.02