profitability

2 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 17, 2020 by David Hsu · across every show →

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Dec 17, 2020 positive

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Hsu says early profitability makes fundraising easy and businesses resilient

“If you can get to profitability very early and you can keep your growth rate up, you're just in such a great position. Your business is just so healthy. It says that, you know, it's very hard to ever become unprofitable, and raising money becomes so easy if yo…”

David Hsu Dec 17, 2020 ▶ 29:20 20VC: Retool Founder, David Hsu on Why YC Is Helpful Pre Product-Market Fit but Not Post and Why VCs Are Not Helpful Pre-Product Market-Fit but are Post, Why it is Difficult to Become Unprofitable if You Set Yourself Up For Profitability Early & Why VC Th

Mar 26, 2025 positive

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Green: High Gross Retention Enables Software Businesses to Pivot to Profitability

“If you have 70, 75, 80% gross retention, it's much harder. But if you have a 90, 95% gross dollar retention business, yeah, like, make the hard decisions. You know, and get the thing to profitable.”

Mitchell Green Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 32:08 Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

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