[pitchups]

So in other words, they needed $1 Billion dollars in order to have enough money to make money from the $1 Billion dollars?

[quanticle]

It's like a rocket. Most of the fuel in a rocket goes towards lifting the rest of the fuel. Likewise, Twitter needs that level of investment to scale to the point where it can make a return on that level of investment.

[001sky]

This is a good analogy. But with 800m raised in 2011, arguably when they were close "escape velocity" already, its also a fair point to wonder if destiny could have been any different with less $$$ weighing them down.

[potatolicious]

Yeah, it's pretty perverse. I sometimes wonder how many AirBnb's and Squares we could've gotten for the price of Twitter.

[fusiongyro]

Sounds to me like the ultimate a posteriori argument.