Amazon, no matter how much you fiddled with the numbers, ran at an almost absurdist fiction level of loss for its first 5+ years of existence. Some businesses

Amazon, no matter how much you fiddled with the numbers, ran at an almost absurdist fiction level of loss for its first 5+ years of existence. Some businesses take time. We can't all be groping around for that ycombinator brass ring and get gnarly, outsized profits ridiculously fast.