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mvkel 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Ilya Sutskever, Yann LeCun and the End of “Just Ad...

Countless examples of a lack of profit not spelling the doom of a company (uber, amazon, tesla).

Countless examples of companies that strive for profit too early, only to die

Findeton 9 months ago [–]

Amazon was profitable, they just prioritized scaling up so they reinvested all profits.

mvkel 9 months ago | [–]

OpenAI is also very profitable if they deprioritize... scaling up.

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