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The article mentioned profits not once. Everything you just said is the bullshit companies say to get investors to pretend profits don’t matter.



Yes, I could have mentioned profits in the article, but I wouldn’t say that profitability (or lack thereof) is one of the primary things that has changed between 2013 and 2021, and the article is about changes.

To elaborate on my earlier comment: Salesforce has been unprofitable during almost its entire 20+ year existence and it’s worth over $200B. It uses debt and equity to finance growth much more quickly than using profits to do so and thus has grown extremely fast. Do you believe Salesforce is in imminent danger of failure?




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