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by nostrademons 1494 days ago
Best way to mitigate that risk is to have some inside information that they're not going bankrupt.

And the best legal way to do that is to be a customer or prospective customer and observe that there are no other ways to accomplish what you want to.

There're a number of beaten-down tech companies that IMHO would pass that test: NET and COIN are two of them, ZOOM, probably SHOP as well (the small businesses I know on them swear by them). I'd stay away from Affirm, Peloton, Netflix and Roblox, though - those are the ones where, as a customer, I just don't get much value out of them and could easily go elsewhere.