But what are they going to do with all those dimes when they run out of nickels?<p>Seriously though, it does seem to be possible to buy revenue, buying profit is another matter. I suspect these companies are all hemorrhaging cash--while they can show strong revenue growth (btw is that growth linear or better with the amount of money invested? i doubt it), they still need the money to stay in business and support all the contracts they&#x27;re closing.<p>Also, interesting relationship between money and terms. The more money you get, the worse the terms. The argument of &quot;raise money while it&#x27;s cheap&quot; (IE, because you get better terms) works for what facebook in &#x27;07 when they got $240M for 1.6% from MSFT. For most of these big fundraising rounds though, that money is not cheap.