External money is, IMHO the biggest problem. When you seek investments, VC, public or otherwise, there is an expectation for the money to compound at a certain

External money is, IMHO the biggest problem. When you seek investments, VC, public or otherwise, there is an expectation for the money to compound at a certain interest/multiple. This expectations will mostly end up circumventing certain principles, because to keep with such expectations, firms will have to find various hacks and compromises. FB would not have achieved its growth for example, without providing advertisers with personal information of users. There is no natural entity that can keep growing exponentially forever, unless it is cancerous cells. And we all know what happens to a body infested with such cancerous cells.