Somebody mentioned today that reddit has been losing money for 17 years.
edit: my bad, apparently they lost money for 17 years before finally turning a profit about a year and a half ago. Anyway the point is that it can take a long time.
Plenty of examples of companies spending more than they earn for decades. Before OpenAI and Anthropic, though, nobody has ever needed to raise more than $100 billion from investors before turning a profit, though. The scale is immense, enough to where it affects the liquidity of the investors that have funded their rise.
Yeah, it looks like they first turned a profit in 2024, like $25 million and last year it was half a bil. Maybe what I saw was that they lost money for 17 years before that, I dunno.
Somebody mentioned today that reddit has been losing money for 17 years.
edit: my bad, apparently they lost money for 17 years before finally turning a profit about a year and a half ago. Anyway the point is that it can take a long time.
Plenty of examples of companies spending more than they earn for decades. Before OpenAI and Anthropic, though, nobody has ever needed to raise more than $100 billion from investors before turning a profit, though. The scale is immense, enough to where it affects the liquidity of the investors that have funded their rise.
I’m no financial wiz but the Wikipedia says they had half a billion in income on 2.2 billion revenue.
Yeah, it looks like they first turned a profit in 2024, like $25 million and last year it was half a bil. Maybe what I saw was that they lost money for 17 years before that, I dunno.
The norm for tech companies was to continue to burn cash after IPO for years and years to capture market share and worry about monetization later.