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You're confusing revenue with profit.
by whitepoplar 8y ago
You're confusing revenue with profit.
- TheRealPomax 8y agoNo, 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.