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> It just takes a C-suite/board/founder to have the moral fortitude ... Just for context, could you provide some examples of such people?

• macki0 9mo ago
  Craig Newmark (Craigslist) and Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) come to mind, both founders could have made platfoms that would have been ad-ridden (and made a boat full of cash) but the founders chose not to
  • fakedang 9mo ago
    Uhh, Craigslist is literally an ad platform. They just didn't want anything to do with a middleman.
    • dylan604 9mo ago
      I think we can all agree the "ads" on CL are not even close to the same ballpark as the offerings of ad tech. Like to conflate the two as the same would be the most disingenuous bit of logic that I'd be embarrassed if I were the one to have made it.