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I mean surpass GitHub in both usage and revenue.

• TheRealPomax 8y ago
  Revenue? GitHub has been operating at a loss right up to the moment that MS bought them for over a thousand times what they had to start making annually to not run a loss.
  • whitepoplar 8y ago
    You're confusing revenue with profit.
    • TheRealPomax 8y ago
      No, I'm not. Both are business health indicators, with revenue being the more important one, since you can be sustainable without being profitable. However, when you operation on a _loss_ your revenue is not sufficient, and Github has been running a loss right up to when MS bought them. While having no profit does not imply you have insufficient revenue, running your business at a loss absolutely does. So: wanting another company in the same space to have the same kind of revenue profile is extremely questionable; you want them to have a sustainable revenue model, and the ideally on top of that, be profitable.