Re:RxBar co-founder Peter Rahal on life after becoming a mil...
by treebornfrog on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @02:56PM
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Makes life easier for you personally after an exit / liquidity event.
Not related to funding of a company, that's a whole different ball game.
Re:RxBar co-founder Peter Rahal on life after becoming a mil...
by mercutio2 on Thursday October 03, 2019 @03:36PM
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Net assets, and net income, make life happier for companies.
What you describe is cash flow, which is often necessary, but not really analogous.
It’s like saying “access to low interest rate 30 year mortgages makes life happy”, which might be true if you’re looking for a mortgage, but isn’t really generally applicable.
Re:RxBar co-founder Peter Rahal on life after becoming a mil...
by castis on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @02:56PM
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Thats not at all how any of the mechanism you're talking about works. The alternative OP speaks of is having no money. Everything gets more difficult if you lack any of this resource.
Re:RxBar co-founder Peter Rahal on life after becoming a mil...
by cycloptic on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @03:20PM
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That also isn't true as long as you retain the ability to obtain money. Or just have rich friends you can mooch off of. Either one of those seem to work for a lot of people.
Now if nobody around you has any money, that might be an indication of a serious problem, but still in that case a little bit of economic knowledge can go a long way.
Re:RxBar co-founder Peter Rahal on life after becoming a mil...
by castis on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @03:36PM
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> retain the ability to obtain money
Still not the same as having no money.
Re:RxBar co-founder Peter Rahal on life after becoming a mil...
by cycloptic on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @04:35PM
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I really don't know what you want me to say. If the problem actually is "no money" then there are many solutions to that. Whether you find them acceptable is a different story. But my point is that often that really isn't the core of the problem.
I don't think that's true. If it were, you wouldn't see these companies fundraising 9+ figures and then still failing to turn a profit and crashing and burning. It didn't make anything easier for them. If anything, it made it harder because the management got overconfident.