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Firstround shills for their founders like no other. No mention of the discipline as it relates to profitability, a healthy CAC:LTV, equity efficiency - but plen
by crsv 8y ago
Firstround shills for their founders like no other. No mention of the discipline as it relates to profitability, a healthy CAC:LTV, equity efficiency - but plenty of vanity metrics to go around, naturally amount of money raised and team size. These VC fluff pieces are increasingly insufferable PR.
- bb92849281 8y agoFirst Round is not an investor in Front.
- crsv 8y agoThey don’t put these pieces together out of a collegial respect for random entrepreneurs.
- bb92849281 8y ago?
- skrebbel 8y agoCorrect, it's called content marketing. YC does it too.
- GraffitiTim 8y agoIt's insane to refer to this article as a fluff piece. It's a detailed, transparent, numerical, inside look at how a particular founder runs various aspects of her business. It's one of the least fluffy pieces I've seen about a startup.
- valuearb 8y agoIs this one of those “great businesses” that’s never turned a profit and will disappear like a puff of smoke in the next economic downturn?
- hellot848 8y agoI'd say it's more likely to peter out/be acquired and killed due to the overall lack of vision. Discipline is good for local optimization, but it doesn't build huge companies on its own.
- ztratar 8y agoRead the article. See where she says "we're default alive" in an email to her company? That means they were profitable back in 2016. I assume now with extra capital that might not be the case, but that's the re-invest in the growth strategy, a la Amazon (which is smart).
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