Comment by simonw
10 hours ago
Love the photo caption "FIGURE 1. US BEING AS EXCITED AS YOU CAN BE PAYING TAXES".
Oxide are so good at comms.
10 hours ago
Love the photo caption "FIGURE 1. US BEING AS EXCITED AS YOU CAN BE PAYING TAXES".
Oxide are so good at comms.
But maybe not great at finance?
Why are they paying taxes if they have a huge order backlog. Expand your production capability. Amazon famously had no profits on paper for many years because of their relentless expansion.
> Why are they paying taxes
"Paying our taxes" in this kind of context is nearly always shorthand for "filling out our tax returns". That part usually takes a substantial hunk of time. The actual payment process is typically writing a check or entering credit card info, which just takes a few seconds.
Well, in this case it was actually literally paying our taxes. (In the photo, Steve is about to initiate a wire to the IRS.) At our size, it's not a check -- and certainly not a credit card.
As to why we're paying taxes: while tax minimization is certainly a thing (and we have taken advantage of things like R&D tax credits), we're paying taxes because we're profitable.
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Maybe they're not trying to be great at the tax avoidance game.
The post is about how they don't have the capital to safely expand production capacity, which is why they're raising more.
And yet that seems like a caption Bryan could have written…
Comms can mean outward communication even if it’s not done or filtered by a comms team. In the case of Oxide it almost certainly means that.