We're looking at this a bit differently because the scale opportunity is available to us. The market we are in is huge, and growing, and we have a unique take.
But that doesn't mean default profitable should be ignored. It shouldn't be an either or.
I guess I'm likening it to a fire to keep you warm enough to survive in the cold vs a bonfire.
Build the fire to keep you alive, THEN put huge amounts of wood and fuel on it to grow huge.
I feel like the VC model is "we'll get a bunch of stuff that might burn, throw gas on it, light it up, and then see if the stuff we put in will actually burn or not".
We had a VC turn us down, not because he didn't believe in the market or the opportunity, but he didn't believe we could grow fast enough.
We're looking at this a bit differently because the scale opportunity is available to us. The market we are in is huge, and growing, and we have a unique take.
But that doesn't mean default profitable should be ignored. It shouldn't be an either or.
I guess I'm likening it to a fire to keep you warm enough to survive in the cold vs a bonfire.
Build the fire to keep you alive, THEN put huge amounts of wood and fuel on it to grow huge.
I feel like the VC model is "we'll get a bunch of stuff that might burn, throw gas on it, light it up, and then see if the stuff we put in will actually burn or not".
We had a VC turn us down, not because he didn't believe in the market or the opportunity, but he didn't believe we could grow fast enough.