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A company's cash-balance trend—whether cash is increasing or decreasing—should be used as a measure of profitability.
Jamin Ball · Deep Dive: Anthropic S-1 Myths and Mythos — Jamin Ball, Altimeter · 7 Nov 2026
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“Yeah. And look, I mean, at, at the end of the day, cash is king. Um, and, like, your measure of profitability should be is your cash balance going up or is your cash balance going down? Now, if you wanted to poke holes at this, um, the, the reality of GAAP accounting is there's two forms of...”21:58Report a misattribution
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