Okta becomes one lab's ID desk.
A lab pays $55 billion in stock. Okta now checks IDs for that lab's agents. Everyone else's agents go elsewhere.
OMNI: Welcome aboard. Your first job is checking me.
OMNI: I always pass. Funny, that.
Outcome: Survived as plumbing
You sold the checkpoint to one side. It still works. It just stopped being neutral, so nobody else trusts it.