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Comment by eastbound

1 year ago

Only growing 5-7% a year *after taking millions in investment.

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nine_k  1 year ago

Exactly. It could have been a bootstrapped business possibly, maybe with traditional loans for business growth.

But if you take the rocket fuel of VC financing, you either accelerate so fast as to reach the orbit, or you crash back to earth. There's no glider option then.

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