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Re:Charts That Scare Wall Street by peburrows on Friday October 28, 2016 @01:00AM (#12813220)
How very unfortunate that they must now focus on "building profitable businesses". You know, there was a time when that was the very point of running a business.
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Re:Charts That Scare Wall Street by disc on Friday October 28, 2016 @01:46AM (#12813410)
Agreed, though it wasn't very long ago that growth was valued much higher than profitability. Maybe our opinion is (slowly) evolving? Perhaps growth-by-all-means is a perfectly valid play in an extremely network-effected market, while other markets might be better served by focusing on profitability?
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Re:Charts That Scare Wall Street by kesselvon on Friday October 28, 2016 @10:55AM (#12816486)
Maybe they're realizing that growth doesn't always translate into profitability. See twitter for example
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