[misssocrates]

It goes both ways, does it not? Companies and their respective goods or service can't survive without being profitable.

[elliekelly]

Amazon survived just fine without being profitable for something like two decades.

[bioemerl]

I feel like we would all have been better off if Amazon had not been allowed to do this.

[elliekelly]

I absolutely agree.

[reissbaker]

Investors are willing to put a premium on growth, even if it means the company is unprofitable (for certain definitions of unprofitable — you have to be convincing that you could be profitable, if only you stopped spending so much on growth). If you're unprofitable and losing users you're in trouble.