cash flow in Podcasts
conceptThe concept that cash flow is the most important financial metric for businesses.
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Cash flow is like fuel. It gives you the ability to do so many different things. So we're the biggest fan in companies that move towards cash flow relatively quickly, not with seeing all the noise out there about how it's not that important. The next thing I'll note as we talk about cash flow is, you know, I'm watching recently an entrepreneur, somebody who started their own business.
So when you talk to a business owner or a founder, and they're not really concerned about cash flow, they're just concerned about making things beautiful or making them great. I always take a backseat to investing in that company because I always want to see when somebody thinks they might be getting the cash flow and what the thoughts are around it, how important they view it.
For most business startups, this concept that we could wait a couple years for profitability, we could wait years for profitability is largely a myth. And ultimately, cash flow and getting the cash flow is the absolute king. Cash flow allows you to invest in people and talent and growth, take some risk and do all the things you have to do.
Every once in a while, you just got to slow down and breathe. This one is right on. When people are running businesses at negative cash flows, they either got to be a richly well-funded, venture capital-funded company with a lot of runway and a very specific plan that they're going to grow the heck out of the company and then get to profitability. But for most small and medium-sized businesses –
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