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by ethbr0 2080 days ago
I said this in another thread, and I think it's apt here.

If you have high growth, you can lose a lot of money and still have a good story.

If you make some money, but don't have high growth, then you can't tell nearly as compelling of a story.

Effectively, investors are assuming eventual profitability is inevitable, and measuring growth.

The 90s showed that's fair... sometimes. But definitely lets pathological corporate liars with juiced metrics slip through too.

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I’m not sure it’s about growth. Based on YCharts, it seems like Tesla’s revenue growth stalled after Sep 2018. https://ycharts.com/companies/TSLA/revenues
It's hard to see in that chart because of the big peak in the 4th quarter of 2018, but year over year growth per quarter is generally improving. The annual revenue chart shows the trend more clearly: https://ycharts.com/companies/TSLA/revenues_annual
Name a high growth company that grew to scale but didn't turn profitable? Uber? That still worked out
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