Comment by darkwizard42
3 hours ago
Honest question, everyone really hates annualized revenue, but how else do you measure the revenue for a company that is (presumably) growing so much month over month? You can't just state revenue projections because they are growing too fast for them to ever make much sense.
Obviously for fast-growing companies, they always want to overstate their success to get that next bit of funding (or in OAI, Anthropic's case justify their existing valuation), so what metric should they share to investors?
State the truth, what revenue you collected last month, the month before, etc. We're not children that need help with arithmetic. We can all multiply by 12, but we don't because it's meaningless. Report the truth. Report what you have already done and leave the "make up new measures that make us look good by pretending we can predict the future" to others.
Who hates annualized revenue?
Monthly revenue?