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jbs789 • today at 1:25 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Does that include R&D?

Over time that margin persists only if they maintain their competitive edge, which is not free.


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wongarsu • today at 1:38 PM

It includes compute and infrastructure for R&D. Then you have to add just over a third of their compute spend for personnel, another expense of that size for sales and marketing, and half that for other admin/ops costs, for an operating loss of 693M. Then a bunch of accounting stuff to end up losing 80B

I'm not sure I'd call it a great result, but it's a promising one. If they can increase demand without significant changes in margin or R&D spending, they are on the path to becoming very profitable

throwawayffffas • today at 1:27 PM

The way I read it, it does. It looks like total revenue vs total compute expenditure.