One way to think of this is that if you are a regular employee of a company, you are 100% dependent on them for your work, but you also have a lot of things tak

One way to think of this is that if you are a regular employee of a company, you are 100% dependent on them for your work, but you also have a lot of things taken care of for you (one hopes). If you have a startup, but it's heavily dependent on some platform, you are maybe not completely dependent on them in the same way, but less independent than if you had your own infrastructure. There's sort of a continuum here.