Rockstar shopping is inherently unsafe - Graham says wrong things

I have cleaned up the intro some. This is the (very) long form of a speech I've given to a few startups who have come calling. Sometimes they listen. My observation has been that the ones that...

I have cleaned up the intro some. This is the (very) long form of a speech I've given to a few startups who have come calling. Sometimes they listen. My observation has been that the ones that don't listen end up repeating the process a while later. If you're working on a product where security or privacy is a feature, hopefully none of this applies to you because you're already making these decisions correctly. If you're working on a product where security is an emerging need, or you've just realized that it should have been a core feature, I hope you get some use from this. Someone just said

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