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foobiekr
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HashiCorp adopts Business Source License
It's not weird at all to go public before profitability, that was even the standard in tech for the longest time. The IPO was a _fundraising_ event, not a dump-the-company-on-the-public-and-move-on event.
scarface_74
on Aug 11, 2023
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All of the current BigTech companies except Amazon were profitable before going public - Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook.
The vast majority of tech companies that IPOd since Facebook have been a disaster of an investment.
foobiekr
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Time didn't start in 2004.
scarface_74
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