Revenue

5 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Sep 5, 2018 by Michael Seibel · across every show →

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Sep 5, 2018
Insight
Seibel: Startups must track revenue as their KPI even when it's zero
“If your KPI is revenue, and the number is zero, should you still be tracking that as your top line KPI? The short answer is yes. You should be depressed looking at that number every week until, like, that's the answer.”
Michael Seibel Sep 5, 2018 ▶ 52:27 Michael Seibel - Building Product · Y Combinator
Aug 1, 2019 positive
Insight
Adora Cheung: Revenue is always the best primary metric for startups
“Revenue is always the best metric. I pay you a hundred dollars to use your product, your software. I must at least value that a hundred dollars. Active users, ah, using the product once a week, or, ah, once a day, we call that weekly active user or daily activ…”
Adora Cheung Aug 1, 2019 ▶ 2:46 Adora Cheung - How to Set KPIs and Goals · Y Combinator
Jan 11, 2023 negative
Insight
Seibel: Monetizing startups should track revenue rather than registered users
“For companies who charge their customers money, somehow creating a goal incremented in something that's not money Hey, my product costs 10 dollars a month, but I'm measuring registered users. I want to hit, you know, a thousand registered users, and it's like,…”
Michael Seibel Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 3:41 The Secrets To Setting Smarter Goals · Y Combinator
Feb 5, 2023 positive
Insight
Revenue is the only way to keep score in startups
“Like the only way that you can keep score is like revenue for my startup. And if it gets big, there's no other way to keep score than that.”
Dalton Caldwell Feb 5, 2023 ▶ 12:41 The Cult of Conformity in Silicon Valley · Y Combinator
Dec 3, 2025
Assertion Supported
Skates: Amplitude generates $350M in annual revenue and spends nearly that much
“We're three hundred and fifty million in revenue, and, you know, we're deploying close to that in terms of total spend every year”
Spencer Skates Dec 3, 2025 ▶ 40:19 How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI · Y Combinator
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