Couldn't have said it better myself. To justify that financial models are a waste of time by saying "90% of startups fail" is aken to saying that professional a

Couldn't have said it better myself. To justify that financial models are a waste of time by saying "90% of startups fail" is aken to saying that professional athletes shouldn't train because "99.9% of athletes don't become pros". Do you think that the remaining 10% of successful startups aren't utilizing forecasts and testing their assumptions? People love to be contrarian just to be contrarian on this site sometimes.