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Re:DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward rev... by dannyw on Thursday February 20, 2020 @08:44PM (#22380302)
On a cashflow basis, you incur 100% of the depreciation at the moment you pay for it.
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Re:DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward rev... by scarface74 on Thursday February 20, 2020 @09:47PM (#22380559)
But wouldn’t your profit be awesome the years you didn’t have to claim depreciation?
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Re:DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward rev... by formercoder on Thursday February 20, 2020 @10:38PM (#22380757)
Hence you’ve invented EBITDA and EBITDA less capex :)
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Re:DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward rev... by scarface74 on Thursday February 20, 2020 @10:45PM (#22380786)
Damnit that was a major self own I just did wasn’t it?
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Re:DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward rev... by formercoder on Thursday February 20, 2020 @10:49PM (#22380805)
It just means you’ve internalized the concepts!
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