You can compare apples and oranges just fine. (You are working to argue that the comparison being made isn't useful and haven't gotten there. For instance, if

You can compare apples and oranges just fine. (You are working to argue that the comparison being made isn't useful and haven't gotten there. For instance, if I was going to build a company, I'd certainly want to know what parts of a culture were important to a company that compared so well against the longer working company)