> Instead, it's been empowered by institutional investors that appear to have turned a blind eye to its deeds in the pursuit of profit. Maybe I should have wor

> Instead, it's been empowered by institutional investors that appear to have turned a blind eye to its deeds in the pursuit of profit. Maybe I should have worded it better. Yes, companies like NSO most probably do receive institutional money, in the same way that some of the taxes we pay go to purchasing tanks and ammunition (i.e. the military doesn't run from a rogue basement), my point was that if that institutional money were somehow to be gone overnight it will not be the end of the world for companies like NSO, or for the people that they employ. Worst case scenario the company goes bankrupt and another NSO-like company takes its place, with the same stakeholders behind it. But all the institutional and VC money in the world won't help take a NSO-like company off the ground if it doesn't have the right state-approved and and state-sponsored stakeholders.