revenue

“The worst companies we've seen in our portfolio have been the ones that take three, four years to get to revenue, three, four years to get, to prove their ideas against customer engagement.”

“The first one is you should choose the metrics that you will track and you should not change them. Too often I've seen entrepreneurs For example, track revenue, and then maybe revenue is not going as well as expected, so all of a sudden we'll switch to DAUs be…”

“At the end of the day, revenue and net revenue is the most important metric.”

“Revenue as a marker for product market fit on its own is probably a lazy way to look at it.”

“The, those first sales, I don't think about revenue as being important. The revenue or the currency that matters in those first sales are the logos. You need to be acquiring logos. You need to be able to say, hey, this company works with us. That gives you cre…”

“Often it's revenue and revenue for me is an output. It's not an input.”

“If you're at scale, if you're north of 50, a hundred million in revenue, the founders aren't going to quit. Just, worst case, you lose 20 or 30%. It's not the end of the world, right?”

“The biggest mistake with North Star, and it's a very reasonable one, is they choose their North Star as revenue, or profits.”

“I always say your North Star should never be revenue.”

“They are, in fact, while not as directly responsible as sales, they're still responsible for revenue.”

“It's achievable in several years for us to be in the range of six hundred million.”

“We had a great quarter, Harry. We delivered, you know, clear guidance to thirty eight billion in revenue this year, 12.9 billion in cash flow 32.9% margins.”

“Pricing strategy should not be to chase revenue, but it should be to attract revenue.”

“You actually want evidence of technical debt affecting revenue, affecting customer outcomes. And you want to compile the evidence because otherwise if you don't have evidence or you just refer it to as like technical debt overall, it is just like, you can go f…”

“Despite the fact that we had, we were making a couple million in revenue off the previous business.”

“And 80% of people are in the first category. They're building real complex applications.”

“The chip companies are now stepping up and saying, okay, we'll absorb some of the risk. We'll put in the capital to finance this build out where the demand on the other side is not so clear because of course the chip companies also get to book this as revenue.”

“As I said, four million dollars in 23, forty-ish in 24.”

“Compute and revenue have a one-to-one correlation. So as long as that holds, it makes sense to consume every single penny of capital on all of Planet Earth.”

“To my point, I think it's flawed logic, because if you just throw a budget at people and you create a leaderboard of token usage, what are people going to do? Create a bunch of crap that has no value. And all of a sudden you burn your budget, you're paying rea…”

“In our case, word of mouth keeps compounding. We are around 40% of our revenue, even at our size, which starts being really big is 40%.”