My house is a ~700 sqft. condominium, gov. subsidized for lower income individuals, and even my mortgage is more than 300k… maybe I’m just basing my info off of coastal city prices, but is it possible to buy a reasonably nice home located in a reasonably nice amerikkkan city… for $300k in 2026?
This reasoning is largely centered around the runway being finite. You obviously can't have costs so high you are making a huge loss, but also there's little value in improving margins past profitability until you actually have a stable segment of the market.
Exactly, and you need to start turning a profit before the end of that runway. Even if that means running code that is suboptimal.
i suppose you could say the same about buying a house. just make that initial 300.000 and from there on out its easy. everything looks better on paper
My house is a ~700 sqft. condominium, gov. subsidized for lower income individuals, and even my mortgage is more than 300k… maybe I’m just basing my info off of coastal city prices, but is it possible to buy a reasonably nice home located in a reasonably nice amerikkkan city… for $300k in 2026?
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This reasoning is largely centered around the runway being finite. You obviously can't have costs so high you are making a huge loss, but also there's little value in improving margins past profitability until you actually have a stable segment of the market.
we are all perfectly smooth, round, and filled with an incompressible liquid
Every startup is one bet in a Martingale strategy played by the class of people who remain solvent when you bust.
The median return for a startup is $0. Take care when trying to extrapolate cause and effect.