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Originally Posted by Bman
for the most part that makes up most business's. Some call them investors and some call them customers  |
Before of adult so in 1996-2002 I used to work with/for those venture funded companies, who basically all had the same investors, and was customers of each other. So for example the Telecom X whose shareholder is Fund Y, will carefully choice (from a large list of providers), the service of startup company Z (always in Usa and/or Israel) whose venture capital comes from Fund Y. Eventually startup will have no any other customers, except other companies also owned by Fund Y. Finally Telecom X will buy company Z, retuning the money to Fund Y (who is also who paid - to themselves). Note never there was a real customer, which is, someone not involved with Fund Y, in the whole process. However those startups needed someone to write code, so here is where the outsourcing company (me) was getting paid for something practical. At some point they stopped to flow that big money so I switched to adult, where it was real (final, random) customers to pay.