<story><title>Why We Choose Profit</title><url>https://m.signalvnoise.com/why-we-choose-profit-e511efc4dcb9#.2ywqscd9u</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xwowsersx</author><text>I know this going to sound grumpy, but...&lt;p&gt;I agree with a lot of this and enjoyed reading their book in which they outline their philosophy on business and management.&lt;p&gt;But how many times are they going to scream and blog about this? It gets old. I get it, you&amp;#x27;re profitable and you think it&amp;#x27;s a good thing. But they&amp;#x27;ve repeated this over and over and they sometimes go overboard in trying to pit themselves against VCs and the perceived waste of the SV tech culture.. Some of it is fair. Some of it just feels like marketing on their part...a way to write more blog posts by pitting themselves against an enemy.&lt;p&gt;Companies that are profitable and doing well don&amp;#x27;t need to constantly blog about their profitability. Just my two cents.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hawkice</author><text>And yet companies losing barrels of money get their &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m even more in debt now&amp;quot; VC posts upvoted as news.&lt;p&gt;The current situation creates an asymmetry, and that distorts how people think business is done, which in turn distorts how people think business _should_ be done.&lt;p&gt;I think it&amp;#x27;s fair to have posts about businesses that don&amp;#x27;t have to burn through their own lifeblood to try and change enough to finally make some money. That&amp;#x27;s _way_ more normal.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why We Choose Profit</title><url>https://m.signalvnoise.com/why-we-choose-profit-e511efc4dcb9#.2ywqscd9u</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xwowsersx</author><text>I know this going to sound grumpy, but...&lt;p&gt;I agree with a lot of this and enjoyed reading their book in which they outline their philosophy on business and management.&lt;p&gt;But how many times are they going to scream and blog about this? It gets old. I get it, you&amp;#x27;re profitable and you think it&amp;#x27;s a good thing. But they&amp;#x27;ve repeated this over and over and they sometimes go overboard in trying to pit themselves against VCs and the perceived waste of the SV tech culture.. Some of it is fair. Some of it just feels like marketing on their part...a way to write more blog posts by pitting themselves against an enemy.&lt;p&gt;Companies that are profitable and doing well don&amp;#x27;t need to constantly blog about their profitability. Just my two cents.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simplehuman</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s called content marketing. How do you think they have remained profitable?</text></comment>