Applying scale-first, profit-later to every business is a cookbook that turns small failures into big ones.

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Aswath Damodaran 2 Sept 2026 Professor of finance at NYU’s Stern School of Business

Any investor or founder who blindly follows the pathway of scaling first and profiting later for every business is using a cookbook approach to business building, and runs the risk of making small failures into big ones.

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↗The Scaling and Profitability Trade off: Venture Capital’s Weakest Link!aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com

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