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$1M-$10M is basically nothing for the big companies investing, they can literally mark it off as costs, and if one of them so happens to actually succeed they make it all back plus some.

It’s not that they’re necessarily careless, it’s just that the bigger the net the more fish you catch. And when you own both all the fishing boats and all the nets…might as well cast wide.

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