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topic on 5 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2019
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Moore: Cash flow positivity matters for crossing the chasm, not GAAP profitability
“All you really care about is cashflow positive. I just want to be able to keep, I want to keep doing what I'm doing. So you don't care about the actual gap accounting at all.”
Tobi Lütke: Most SaaS company value is impossible to capture under GAAP
“Most of the value of, like, of a SaaS company is, like, extraordinarily hard to value from a GAAP perspective. Like, Shopify's ability to hire the best engineers in the world. Like, what is that worth? Like, it's, I think it's tens of billions as a competitive…”
Lemkin: Straying from GAAP revenue accounting creates business chaos
“The further you go away from GAAP, the more
Fracked up, your business is gonna be.”
Earl: Doubling YoY revenue almost always requires operating at a GAAP loss
“It is almost impossible to double revenue year over year without going into the red from a gap perspective.”