How Important Is the Use of Independent Workers or Independent Contractors?

We asked the start ups in our survey as well, like, how essential is the use of independent workers or independent contractors? Is their legal definition? I'm for your business models? And we had close a 60 % say, absolutely essential slash indispensable. And that's close to 500 participants who answered that question. But one of the things they also mentioned is a, that how important it was to for them to be able to grow when they didn't have a very strict a regulations in their industries. When we interviewed venture capitalists, they were all they also said, you know, we're not going to, we stay away from investing in startups in regulated industries. So it's kind of