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▲ 34679 5 hours ago

If revenue growth was all that mattered, you could just sell investor dollars for $0.50.

▲trollbridge 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

99¢-Theranos style is better. Takes a lot longer for investors to notice.

▲jacquesm 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you think that's the bar: it's been done, many times over. The unit-cost-profitability test was ignored by many VCs (they learned something and if they had deep enough pockets they got to play again).

▲JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> If revenue growth was all that mattered

Straw man. Nobody argued this. What was falsely stated at the start was turning investor dollars into revenue is easy.

I specifically went into unit economics elsewhere [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50243393