I have worked at my current small company for more than 10 years, and the company itself existed for more than 10 years before I started working there. Companies which take significant outside investment are doomed to die trying to get big, but not all small companies are like that.

A small company might also fit all their employees and infrastructure in the same jurisdiction as yours. Which will make any legal trouble magnitudes simpler to handle compared to an big international company. (This is also simplified by also choosing your domain TLD:s to be similarly aligned.)