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#194 Financial Fluency for Startup Founders With Jeff Rudner

The CTO Show with Mehmet Gonullu

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The Different Types of Profit Margins

A lot of tech startups have negative profit margins, which means if we just forget about the tech concept for a second. If you're selling a t-shirt for $10, but it costs you $15 to make that t-shirt, you lose $5 on every t-shirt you sell. That's probably not a good business. It requires a lot of humans to support some of the functions that will be automated down the line. The higher the gross profit margin is, the more money that’s available to pour onto sales and marketing advertising to increase overall revenue and income.

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