"A lot of new industries have discovered that a few bad actors who screw up early can damage the reputation of the entire industry" Please cite some examples.

"A lot of new industries have discovered that a few bad actors who screw up early can damage the reputation of the entire industry" Please cite some examples. I can't come up with any, and this is intuitively false to me. Productive industries steamroll over bad actors and indiscretion. Railroads, gold-mining, and arguably social gaming were propelled by bad actors.