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I think they like to make many small ones do it so they can get a cut of the inevitable corruption that stems from it. Same here in the UK, with all sorts of things.

Things like that should be publicly run, because there has to be one body dealing with it and it would be unfair to offer such a lucrative market to just 1 private company (also, it should be non-profit).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camorra

So typical London tech exploitation then?

Getting downvoted for the only right answer. Well, the only popular one that's actually worth using most of the time; the rest (too high level) are for people who don't know what they are doing to at least potentially be useful hires.

For industry leaders: Dunno, it's strange. People are looking all the time for better places to get work done because most places are really bad, especially in the UK/London the business model is based around scams. The startup I worked at had interest from [3 big companies] within a few weeks just because we were in the market gap and they needed someone like us (though they have enough money to sort their problem which is what never made sense, do these companies really lack tech ability and vision that much? Or did they not know they had a problem until they saw the solution?).

I think with these guys, they had connections through work they were already doing and got some smaller contracts to prove their worth even moreso when they went into business themselves.