So my company is providing a Platform-as-a-service for mainly Flash game developers, where we provide storage, hosting, multiplayer, and payment services. We h

So my company is providing a Platform-as-a-service for mainly Flash game developers, where we provide storage, hosting, multiplayer, and payment services. We have lots of customers who are happily building games on top of our platform, because they do not have the skills required to make their own. They're small companies who can't afford to hire a bunch of guys to make scalable storage services or payment integrations or whatever they need. So if not for us, the games they've made and are making quite a lot of money on, would never have been made in the first place. They make money, we make money, everyone's happy! Of course, if we fail, our customers will fail. They're tied to us, but that's the risk that comes with the benefit of getting our services cheap. And on the flipside, we in turn use other PaaS solutions, we use Amazon S3 for a lot of things, we use a bunch of different CDN providers, and we rent dedicated hardware instead of buying and running our own datacenter. We stand on the shoulders of others, our service could not exist without them. And our customers stand on our shoulders, their products could not exist without us. And that's ok. There are risks, but there's also opportunity. Building your own platform and owning the entire stack is also risky.