No one ever said that about Facebook. Facebook was profitable way before it IPO’d and only did so because it had more than 500 owners and has to do reporting a

No one ever said that about Facebook. Facebook was profitable way before it IPO’d and only did so because it had more than 500 owners and has to do reporting anyway as a public company. Google also didn’t go through billions of dollars and was profitable when it IPOd. DoorDash still isn’t profitable. But either way, your argument suffers from survivorship bias. There are thousands of companies that fail and disappear into obscurity