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Applying scale-first, profit-later to every business is a cookbook that turns small failures into big ones.Their words
Any investor or founder who blindly follows the pathway of scaling first and profiting later for every business is using a cookbook approach to business building, and runs the risk of making small failures into big ones.
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When it comes to cafe operations and roasting, efficient workflow is critical to profit margins.
29 July
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GhosttyTheir words
I have no intention of ever commercializing Ghostty. To solidify this, I donated the entirety of Ghostty to a federally recognized non-profit in 2025.
12 July
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Movements built around a shared moral cause outcompete purely profit-driven ones, in practice as well as in theory.Their words
missionary societies outcompete mercenary ones, not just in theory but in practice.
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Companies that claim to be missiondriven, most of them are just mission hopeful. Okay? It's it's It's just a candy coating on top of an extractive engine. Sorry, I don't buy it. If you're serious about being missiondriven, you have to show me that you cannot profit except by achieving the mission.
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Their words
There has to be sound business model that makes sustained profit, right? Growth and profit. Growth alone eventually burn, you know, money and that's not good.
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Their words
Focus on making great computers with great user experiences above all else, and you can trust that every other major goal will follow: profit, market share, expansion, impact, and benefit to the world.
27 March
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Their words
Whether or not they succeed is going to be decided by decisions that we all make as a community in the coming months.
16 February
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It's interesting that the Shorter hobby businesses all draft off superstars in the legacy hobby, but make their vast majority of their money from people who will of course never come close to the level superstars - you'd still go to pickleball and talk Nadal vs Federer, you'd still go to Top Golf and make Tiger Woods jokes.
13 February
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I actually think profitability happens when you underestimated the amount of demand you were going to get and loss happens when you overestimated the amount of demand you were going to get because you're buying the data centers ahead of time.
25 January
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Their words
But what we could do is maximize profit instead of revenue now. We've been maximizing revenue, but maybe we maximize profit instead.
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Their words, before
There are obvious pricing problems in this scenario. With a new fab, a company can’t turn a profit selling a lagging-edge chip at the price that was previously dictated by a fully depreciated fab. Prices have to go up.
Their words now
The COVID super-cycle, plus a new China supply line that does not care about capacity economics, points to a forever glut.
16 July 2025
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Bad loans are bad revenue that will eventually kill you, even though for a while they look like profit.Their words
And then, revenues, you know, if I make bad loans, they are bad revenues. They will kill you, but for a while, they look pretty good.
11 June 2025
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From my experience, a lot of company culture is downstream from profit margins.
7 October 2024
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But the platforms do not exist without the people, and there are a lot more of us than there are of them.
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Handing stewardship of Redis to a company whose goal is extracting profit was a mistake for the projectTheir words
I think that was an unfortunate move because their goal is mainly to extract profit from the software project rather than to uphold the ideals of Free and Open Source Software.
18 March 2024
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Their words
I would heavily discourage any startup that was thinking about starting as a nonprofit and adding a for-profit arm later. I’d heavily discourage them from doing that. I don’t think we’ll set a precedent here.
7 April 2023
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A designer’s obligation is to satisfy real human needs rather than to manufacture needs that pay.Their words
Every team should ensure they are fulfilling real human needs over merely inducing needs for profit.
30 June 2021
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The upside of any given project is usually a single-digit profit margin. But the downside is “whatever your company is worth”
Why It's Hard to Innovate in Constructionconstruction-physics.com
29 January 2021
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Well, this $20 billion in retrospect was far too little.
16 June 2020
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