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brokencode • yesterday at 2:57 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

You’re just parroting another headline. Adjusted operating profitability is still a milestone.

Tech companies are capital intensive. AI ones especially. Not a surprise that they don’t have GAAP profitability after 5 years.


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gravypod • yesterday at 4:42 AM

If they, through standard accounting practices, cannot show they are profitable how do we know they are profitable? I assume they can't just say "we are profitable assuming you ignore the costs we paid to build up XYZ". I'm guessing they could pre - rent compute for 10 years or something and maybe that's all on the balance sheet but you'd just amortize that and I think that falls under GAAP?

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