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> But they still use concrete financials (e.g. growth of revenue is just the derivative of revenue) to make those decisions, and are assuming that the future bu
by treve 4y ago
> But they still use concrete financials (e.g. growth of revenue is just the derivative of revenue) to make those decisions, and are assuming that the future buyers will be looking at similar numbers that are based in the same real economic business process.
This makes sense to me, but I wonder how many VCs will pump money into a business, having a pretty good hunch that the business model will never make that much sense at a meaningful scale, but the numbers will probably look good enough for a return of investment until the pyramid collapses after the series C.
These companies are restructured for increase of perceived value, not multi-decade sustainability. Bitcoin to me is just the purest form of this culture.
- majormajor 4y agoI would bet money that this has happened a TON over the last decade, just as you say. Especially post-Uber where "hypergrowth" to get market dominance was all the rage even in extremely cost-heavy, lower-margin industries where scaling was always gonna be a big challenge. If there's good news, though, it's that this appears to be slowing down. Lot of folks getting disillusioned with WeWork, Uber, etc now that those exits happened and went nowhere. I'm assuming investors are realizing they won't be able to play that trick too many more times.