It's not a Startup, it's a 19 year old company providing Internet based service.
Revenue !== profit. One would expect revenue to be growing at a steady clip with profit coming later when costs are decreased
The OP is using "earned" in the colloquial sense to refer to revenue. Earning before interest and tax (EBIT) were a loss of $35 million in 2016 and a loss of $21 million in 2017