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OpenAI's annualized revenue hits $10 billion, up from $5.5 billion in December 2024
(www.reuters.com)
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They love pointing out their revenue instead of their profit. It they were truly making money, you’d think they’d refer to their profit instead.
Revenue is a standard unit of measurement for any venture backed business because it gauges interest and growth better than profit does
Does that run the risk of leading to a future collapse of certain businesses, especially if their expenses remain consistently astronomical like OpenAI? Please note I don’t actually know—not trying to be cheeky with this question. Genuinely curious.
I don't know the answer but my experience with venture capitalists is that they're everything from absolute buffoons to incredibly data-centric in decision making
So if Y combinator cares about revenue then I think the answer to your question is no, in aggregate, but that's just a guess based on an assumption of information that I don't actually have