Interesting story, is the platform intended to go worldwide?
If laws and the risk of FBI etc seizing the data, why not locate the company to a more ok country, like for example the Netherlands? Who allow this kind of technology as long as it is proven to not support trafficing etc.
Eventually we will launch most major cities. For now, we are focusing on CA/IE/UK/US. We should have between over 10 cities online (conservative) by the end of 2018.
We do take advantage of jurisdictional friction to aid us. But we cannot count on these countries protecting us. We will be operating worldwide, and local laws such as NL has won't apply overseas. The US is known to play dirty. So while we could take advantage of our citizenships, only hire people with certain citizenship, live there and never travel ... it is playing a dangerous game. At best we would end up in a long legal fight. Even if we win, that is a waste of money and time.