I guess my genuine question in response is can you tell investors "Please give us billions of dollars - we never plan on being profitable, just endlessly growing and raising money from outside sources"? Unless the goal is to be sold off eventually that seems a bit like a hard sell.
> "Please give us billions of dollars - we never plan on being profitable, just endlessly growing and raising money from outside sources"?
The goal for investors is to be able to exit their investment for more than they put in.
That doesn't mean the company needs to be profitable at all.
Broadly speaking, investors look for sustainable growth. Think Amazon, when they were spending as much money as possible in the early 2000s to build their distribution network and software and doing anything they possibly could to avoid becoming profitable.
Most of the time companies (and investors) don't look for profits. Profits are just a way of paying more tax. Instead the ideal outcome is growing revenue that is cost negative (ie, could be possible) but the excess money is invested in growing more.
Note that this doesn't mean the company is raising money from external sources. Not being profitable doesn't imply that.
