The responses to my statement just reconfirms my belief that all these startups and the people running them will never be profitable. Way too many clever "ackshually..." responses that keep confusing (maybe deliberately) the context of the problem.
The same happened in the dot com era. They don’t understand the layers beneath them that make their businesses temporarily viable. Well, maybe their CFOs understand, but the rest of them either don’t, or have to pretend that they don’t.