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> Good business will have the time of their life. Fast-growing, profitable startups will have the opportunity to buy out struggling competitors, invest in an environment where CAC will decrease, and hire people with fair compensation packages.

What will qualify as "fast-growing" in this climate?

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Thanks for your comment. Stocks got hammered but SaaS businesses continue to grow. Zoom is growing 50% YoY, Datadog 80% YoY...

Interested in what you think about startups like Flexport - 2021 3.3B in revenue (80% passthrough) = 660M net. Their last round in Jan 2022 was ~1B.

So "hype ratio" < 2. Am I looking at this right?

They are certainly growing. But not much profits in many cases. The real question is can they generate a lot of cash once they are out of hyper growth mode? Or will they just never generate much cash flow ever?

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