Comment by astrange

> 2. Keep ownership private and limited. Once you're publicly traded, long term planning becomes impossible and "line must go up" becomes the reigning false god.

You can fight this with dual-class ownership. Google and Meta can do whatever they want because nobody can change their board.

They're still motivated to care about share price because they pay their employees in shares, but you're going to have to get the money to pay employees from somewhere.