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Founder & CEO GatewayX where I’m building Bootstrapped Giants: ambitious companies growing on their profits. I’ve started 5+, sharing learnings as I go! Founder & CEO GatewayX where I’m building Bootstrapped Giants: ambitious companies growing on their profits. I’ve started 5+, sharing learnings as I go!

Jesse Pujji 2y Report this post Amazon just reached a $1.3 TRILLION market cap. But they got there with ONLY $10mm of VC funding… How? They hijacked and took FULL advantage of this largely ignored (but important) financial metric… ~cash conversion cycle~ ...There are 3 cash conversion cycle scenarios you need to know about: 1. When revenues come after expenses...this is common. 2. When revenues come simultaneously with expenses…not many businesses fall into this situation. 3. When revenues come before expenses...the holy grail of business. …In Amazon’s case, they fall into bucket #3. A custome

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