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I think "good" unprofitable basically boils down to "only unprofitable because what would otherwise be profit is being immediately reinvested into growth (marke
by p1necone 8y ago
I think "good" unprofitable basically boils down to "only unprofitable because what would otherwise be profit is being immediately reinvested into growth (marketing, new employees, better third party software/hardware etc)".
- mattnewton 8y agoAnd the bad unprofitably is usually a variation on selling dollars for .95 to try and capture a market (to charge 1.05) or build up infrastructure/scale that will eventually let you produce them for .94 cents That has to both pan out and pan out before they run out of money.
- glhaynes 8y agoNot my area but I get the impression Amazon has done a lot of both of what the above two posts call "good" unprofitability and "bad" unprofitability.