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darkerside on Dec 11, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fintech startup Plaid raises $250M at a $2.65B val...

> it _seems_ that Plaid is attempting to do that

Isn't this a clear parallel to the Google "Don't be evil" approach that gets discarded as soon as the opportunity cost becomes too large to ignore?

rco8786 on Dec 12, 2018 [–]

Sure, but what do we do? No company should ever be allowed access to data?

darkerside on Dec 14, 2018 | [–]

It's a big question that I don't have the answer to. I'd prefer we trade off on some innovation on features in exchange for innovating the way we segment and communicate our data. But the market is speaking and it has a different opinion...

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