>We do not disclose data and we do not sell data. After you pass in a tragic accident involving an escaped cyborg moose later this year, your fellows decide to

>We do not disclose data and we do not sell data. After you pass in a tragic accident involving an escaped cyborg moose later this year, your fellows decide to leave for a new startup combining building castles in marshes with a singing school, and the company is bought by a private equity firm, will they too not disclose data and not sell data? I mean, joking aside but frankly we're now decades and decades into the digital revolution anyone around awhile has seen this film before. A lot of times. Founders and employees can be absolutely 100% pure in their intentions and genuinely stick to that, no cynicism. But they're humans, you're human, like the rest of us. The flow of time is inexorable and data stored doesn't spontaneously evaporate over time, while meanwhile the average age of companies, even established S&P500 ones not "startups", well [0,1]: >"A recent study by McKinsey found that the average life-span of companies listed in Standard & Poor’s 500 was 61 years in 1958. Today, it is less than 18 years." In 2003 we were all a lot younger, in the 90s lots of data really was just thrown out even objectively valuable stuff like final code/assets for media productions such as hit videogames, and some failure to predict or naivete made sense. Here in 2023 though the default assumption is that any data you gather you will keep forever, and that you as an entity will not be deciding what happens with it forever. That's something you need to address head-on, for real internally as well. "We do not disclose data and we do not sell data" simply doesn't cut it at all, anymore then saying your values are "Don't Be Evil" would. Come on. ---- 0: https://www.imd.org/research-knowledge/disruption/articles/why-you-will-probably-live-longer-than-most-big-companies/ https://www.imd.org/research-knowledge/disruption/articles/w... 1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1259275/average-company-lifespan/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1259275/average-company-...