It's more that there are no upsides (saying "hope to" doesn't sound very certain, so no one is going to increase the price they'll pay for your IPO shares) and

It's more that there are no upsides (saying "hope to" doesn't sound very certain, so no one is going to increase the price they'll pay for your IPO shares) and there are downsides if you don't become profitable within a year, once you've said you hope / intend to. So, the bottom-line incentives are not to say it.