Why is unit economics the single most critical system for evaluating fintech investments?
Replied byNigel Morris
Co-founder & Managing Partner at QED Investors
Niche: Finance
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Location: Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Started: 2007
You can only build a profitable business one customer at a time. Evaluating overall ARR or EBITDA is secondary to measuring the horizontal economics of customer acquisition cost and net present value. A startup only achieves true vertical profitability through the cumulative addition of strong unit economics.
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