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I mean, at the extreme like this: you're gonna die sometime. You don't have control after that. You could try to set up a trust etc etc etc but... on a long enough timeline, everything's gonna change control.

But in practice, almost everyone with these databases with significant amount of data is working for an entity with shareholders and creditors. It's much harder to stay in control forever in that world, especially if your company is not perpetually successful. Companies decline or fold all the time. Then they get sold off.