[busterarm]

I don't necessarily agree. Some businesses simply can't be started without a ton of cash (like building cars like you mentioned). I don't think you could bootstrap a new supermarket concept. Sometimes you just have to get investors to try out an idea.

[kinai]

Yea but they were not building Teslas, they were doing some app/site for restaurants... I wonder what they spend 100k a month on.

[cheriot]

Servers are cheap. Engineers and sales people are not.

[Hydraulix989]

Startups often evolve as a clearing of multiple hurdles of "optimism" in succession before they fail.