> The market, on average, doesn't just want profits from a tech company, it wants significant short-term growth in either revenues or userbase, and if the latt

> The market, on average, doesn't just want profits from a tech company, it wants significant short-term growth in either revenues or userbase, and if the latter reaches saturation the former will occur. Small correction: it's not the "The market" that wants that, its the owner/investors/stock holders that want it. Which is why I have an easier time trusting a small company owned by its founders, than a big, publicly traded company. (Iirc github is still privately owned, but they have taken significant investments, so it's somewhere in between).