alt Hacker News> what profits are you talking about to offset the losses?
You don’t need profit to offset the losses.
You can simply reduce spending / expenses.
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LaGrange • yesterday at 8:58 AM
lol that’s a line so incredibly naive it hurts.
One does not “simply” reduce spending.
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In principle yes, but all metrics so far suggest they are losing money every user interaction. There is very little network effect with these tools so It's not like they can start cutting back on staff and feature deployment.