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"We have incurred significant losses since inception, including in the United States and other major markets. We expect our operating expenses to increase significantly in the foreseeable future, and we may not achieve profitability."


"We have incurred significant losses since inception and may never achieve profitability" is pretty standard in S-1s. Nothing particularly interesting in these sentences.


This exact comment chain seemingly occurs in every S1 post.


A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, companies going public used to already make at least _some_ money...


Zoom is a profitable company that plans to IPO this year: "Zoom has the very rare and valuable financial profile -- it's growing at over 100% a year and it's profitable" [1], they're not extinct!

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2019/04/11/zoom-has-...


A more civilized age.


And with the S-1s coming at increasing frequency for the next several months, I expect this will be repeated many times


Really? Silicon Valley is churning out trashy IPOs of late, and so it becomes the standard?


It was the same thing 20 years ago, so why not now, too?


in silicon valley S-1s.




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