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Beepi Winding Down After Burning Through $150M

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Re: Beepi Winding Down After Burning Through $150M

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Founded in 2013, winding down in less than four years. There's a lesson about burn rates here.

How the hell do you burn through $37.5M a year? It's a used car marketplace? How...?

A ton of ads on FM radio would be my guess, based on on how often I heard them.

Re: Beepi Winding Down After Burning Through $150M

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There's an instructive lesson here in how both valuation and annual run-rate are meaningless numbers without a sound fundamental business underneath.

Beepi was valued at $500MM and had an almost $200MM annual run-rate, yet evaporated and is now worth absolutely nothing.

Who else out there has 9, 10, or even 11-figure valuations and high revenues but is actually a worthless business?

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