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Re:Uber S-1 by kornish on Thursday April 11, 2019 @04:17PM (#19638721)
"We have incurred significant losses since inception and may never achieve profitability" is pretty standard in S-1s. Nothing particularly interesting in these sentences.
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Re:Uber S-1 by granzymes on Thursday April 11, 2019 @04:20PM (#19638743)
This exact comment chain seemingly occurs in every S1 post.
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Re:Uber S-1 by iaabtpbtpnn on Thursday April 11, 2019 @05:05PM (#19639196)
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, companies going public used to already make at least _some_ money...
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Re:Uber S-1 by alphast0rm on Friday April 12, 2019 @12:18AM (#19641946)
Zoom is a profitable company that plans to IPO this year: "Zoom has the very rare and valuable financial profile -- it's growing at over 100% a year and it's profitable" [1], they're not extinct!

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2019/04/11/zoom-has-...

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Re:Uber S-1 by granzymes on Thursday April 11, 2019 @05:23PM (#19639370)
A more civilized age.
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Re:Uber S-1 by imjk on Thursday April 11, 2019 @05:27PM (#19639407)
And with the S-1s coming at increasing frequency for the next several months, I expect this will be repeated many times
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Re:Uber S-1 by mckenna on Thursday April 11, 2019 @07:31PM (#19640361)
Really? Silicon Valley is churning out trashy IPOs of late, and so it becomes the standard?
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Re:Uber S-1 by bunderbunder on Thursday April 11, 2019 @09:43PM (#19641168)
It was the same thing 20 years ago, so why not now, too?
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Re:Uber S-1 by gcb0 on Thursday April 11, 2019 @07:17PM (#19640286)
in silicon valley S-1s.
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