Originally Posted by jayeff

You ever stop to think that at the beginning of every new industry there were lots of people like you, patting themselves on the back, saying nothing would ever change, that the game would always be played by their rules? Who even remembers them?

The names that did survive in oil, banking or anything you care to name, what they have in common is that if they didn't play straight from the beginning, they knew when it was time to clean up their acts.

You aren't treading a new path and if you were near as smart as you apparently think, you would put your ego on hold, read some business history and learn from it.