> If you give me $100 today I can go out a buy $100 a pair of new shoes, and sell it for $70. Give me $200 and I'll go out and by two pairs of shoes and sell them for both $84 (total)!

Hilarious that you use the analogy of shoes. This is exactly the problem. Great explanation on this concept:

https://a16z.com/2015/05/15/a16z-podcast-why-saas-revenue-is...

> Grow profits every year by 30% and I'll be impressed.

Oh, you mean like Facebook did?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/277229/facebooks-annual-...