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small_model | on: Anthropic IPO
Horrible business, hmmm, so it's revenue has grown 10x every year since inception, what is a good business to you if that is deemed 'Horrible'.
xnx | parent | next
Easy to make a similar business of selling $1 bills for $0.80.
maerF0x0 | root | parent | next
kinda a bad analogy though because the margin on marginal sales is very high.
jryle70 | root | parent
Why don't you try that? What do you plan to sell? How much do you need upfront?

I doubt you plan to invest yourself. What would be your sales pitch to investors?

sensanaty | parent
As we all know revenue is the only thing that matters, and not whether they actually, y'know, turn a single red cent of profit! Btw what all the AI bros are conveniently forgetting to comment on is the massive Q3 slowdowns which they conveniently got to keep out of the news cycles.
small_model | root | parent | next
Scale revenue first then massive profits are possible, see Amazon et al.
xnx | root | parent
Only if you don't have equivalent/viable competition. 2 years ago people thought OpenAI was the unstoppable number 1.
jfrbfbreudh | root | parent | next
massive slowdown = highest revenue quarter? ah ok
verdverm | root | parent
massive slowdown in growth, the number is not going up faster, rather it looks to be leveling off
loading story #50467899
lotsofpulp | root | parent
Apparently, we all don’t know how to read 10-Ks, or even simply how to sort by “Earnings”.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/most-profitable-companies/