Oetting: Business Growth Creates Value Only With Operating Leverage
Drew Oetting · 20VC: Why VCs Have Forgotten Their Job To Invest In Entrepreneurs not Technologists, How To Know When Growth Creates Value and When It Destroys It & How To Bootstrap Learning Most People Acquire Over Decades with 8VC Founding Partner, Drew Oetting · Sep 27, 2017 · at 16:22
Drew Oetting, founding partner at 8VC, outlines when top-line startup growth creates value versus when it destroys value.
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“Growth creates value when there's an argument or there is evidence of operating leverage, because then it creates more profitability.”
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