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Re:Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares by bogomipz on Thursday November 30, 2017 @05:04PM (#15820008)
>"The (buzzword warning) hyper-growth startup model is in essence 2X revenue, 1.5X costs."

Can you elaborate on this? What is the relationship between those figures? I am guessing there is a third component that those are multiples of?

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Re:Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares by technotony on Thursday November 30, 2017 @05:10PM (#15820057)
Growth rate... which he implies is large.
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