Do you mean pre-profit/without ever making a profit? I found an article about their IPO:

> Pets.com lost $42.4 million during the fourth quarter last year on $5.2 million in sales. Since the company's inception in February of last year, it has lost $61.8 million on $5.8 million in sales.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/pets-com-raises-82-5...

They had sales, they were just making a massive loss. Isn’t that pretty similar to AI companies, just on a way smaller scale?

We haven’t seen AI IPOs yet, but it’s not hard to imagine one of them going public before making profit IMO.