The Effects of Funding on Growth

Tristan: If you can put several hundred million dollars into your bank account and you have that cushion to ride out a potential downturn, or you can fund yourself for years on top of free money, by all means, go get the free money. I think the thing that is dangerous is if you raise three hundred million dollars and you spend a hundred a year and you're not seeing the growth to get there,. That's where I think you've got yourself in a real problem. The ones I do think that are problematic are if there's this metric that David Sachs has talked about some and his post Yammer-dole kind of burn ratio. And I think that's a pretty