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Do Startups Not Need to Be Profitable?

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Paul O'Brien
Aug 14, 2019
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We’re in this really weird era as Silicon Valley creeps out to the rest of the world, in which investors elsewhere, traditional business owners, and the like, keep advising everyone to, “focus on customers,” “it’s all about revenue,” and questions such as this.

Startups never needed to become profitable.

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