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by swingbridge 11y ago
Yes, but the street cares about revenue because they care about profit. If you have high costs you can always just say you had a bad quarter but profit will come when costs come down. Even if Twitter fired half its people and cut costs like
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Twitter is currently valued at >10x revenue, is unprofitable and future revenue projections are being dialed back. The hype has worn off. It's going to get real ugly real fast unless they can post some decent results real fast.
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Twitter is just a sign of what's to come for a lot of new tech companies. The street wants profit. Once you go public the whole cool startup party ends (unless you can be a cool startup AND hit your profit numbers). It's time to b
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by swingbridge 12y ago
Worth pointing out that when people throw numbers around the stock value alone may sound impressive but that has to be compared against the opportunity cost that's usually associated with that route. Usually those options are handed ou
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by swingbridge 12y ago
Indeed. If the company is a "real business" with actual customers and real profitable finances then those shares can be worth something. If it's all a bunch of VC backed fluff, well then good luck. At that point it's jus
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by swingbridge 12y ago
Amazon will kick their ass on logistics. Amazon already does most of the bundling, dynamic pricing, discounts for slower shipping and other tricks that jet.com mentions. Amazon will also kick their ass in pricing (that's what they did