Profitability

“If you're profitable, you're not investing in growth. You're putting cash in the bank, and so you're not going to be growing as fast, almost inevitably. And so to take two businesses at the same ARR and say they're going to be growing the same amount, while on…”

“I'm just finding that that profitability is not a, it's not a math problem. It's a human problem.”

“The current dynamic of the cost structure, especially for apps companies, Really favor this equation of gross almost equals profitability. The margin structure of some of these companies that we're investors in is incredible.”

“We price raised a few times, Which is part of why we're profitable now. But that's because we had such user surplus in value.”

“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.”

“I still believe, and I know it's unpopular this month, but the growth trumps profitability right now, especially if you're early in a market and you're not at scale.”

“Another thing in addition to the revenue, another thing which I realized that the Indian public markets also really likes is the profitability. So they want you to, you know, hit the market when you have a clear path to profitability or you've already become p…”

“You can never scale into profitability or a healthy company with a negative gross margin. Unless it eventually writes itself.”

“At the end of today, even in this, again, macroeconomic environment, where people are starting to look for also profitability or capital efficiency, still, ladies and gentlemen, growth is the king.”

“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…”

“Well, fortunately, twenty-nineteen for Supergoop was our year to get to profitability and double-digit profitability this year.”

“And so we're, we hit profitability last year.”

“Let's focus on profitability. And if we have four percent of a market and we're profitable, that's better than having 90% of a market and being unprofitable.”

“Developing and delivering software with speed and stability drives things like profitability, productivity, market share.”

“We want to be profitable by next year, which is a really important place in our business.”

“Predictability is not nearly as important as people make it out to seem, because, like, predictability is always good until suddenly something changes and it's no longer predictable. You're fooling yourself if you think you know the future. I think it's much b…”

“So I said, let's focus on profitability. And if we have four percent of a market and we're profitable, that's better than having 90% of a market and being unprofitable.”

“So I said, let's focus on profitability. And if we have four percent of a market and we're profitable, that's better than having 90% of a market and being unprofitable.”

“We went into interviews saying we're only going to choose companies that we think could make it to profitability really quickly on their own And then they can like live as a cockroach.”