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No idea what you’re trying to explain here. A business works when revenue exceeds expenses, not whatever you’re trying to talk about here.

I’m pretty sure “literally everyone” understands that, and not “literally nobody.”




If it were so simple.

A pizza place may generate more revenue than it consumes in expenses all the time, and barely provide enough for the owners to get by.

A unicorn startup can have its expenses exceed revenue all the time (see Uber) and make its owners very rich in the process.


It is that simple.

Neither a pizza place nor a startup exist in for very long without revenue exceeding expenses.

Even in your own examples, both businesses work. It doesn’t matter whether it’s from low revenue and low expenses or high expenses and high capital injection.

Show me a business where revenue was ahead of expenses, had no debt, and it went out of business because it couldn’t pay its bills.

There’s no amount of surprise gotcha clever but-actuallys that can argue with you’re either making money or you aren’t.




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