Mistral AI's big funding win feels like a bright spotlight on one dancer, while the rest of the troupe struggles in the shadows.
For every big player with the legal teams and venture capital connections, there are countless smaller startups whose arc ends not in glory, but in silence, because the compliance costs are a crushing weight.
These smaller characters don't have the stakes to absorb those hits; their limited capital gets eaten up just trying to understand the rules.
It’s like telling a community theatre group that because Broadway is thriving, their smaller production costs are totally manageable.