[patio11]

We incorporate real companies for real businesses. If one ever wants to e.g. get legal advice from a professional other than ones Atlas recommends, we’re more than happy for our companies to do that. (Many of them do, already.)

We see ourselves more as a builder of doors than a keeper of gates. There is a formidable wall of operational nonsense which separates entrepreneurs from building things and selling them to people. We want to get them through that as quickly as possible, rather than creating additional hurdles.

For similar reasons, Atlas is more than happy to help folks take payments with Stripe, but that’s not required or exclusive in any way. If your company thinks Paypal or Apple is a better way to get money from your customers, awesome; your company is no less able to transact with them than any other company. (We literally help people on our forums get set up with DUNS numbers to get on the App Store, for example.)

[watsonc73]

Got it, thanks for clarifying Patrick. That sounds like a fairly clear ethical line in the sand so kudos for taking that position.

Good luck with the US launch :)