So... how long does it take before a company stops being called a startup?
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2025
268 points (99.3% liked)
Technology
76813 readers
2184 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Probably once they can stand on their own merits and make a profit. So never in the case of AI companies.
Lmao, right. 1.5 Billy just laying around? Probably not much of a startup anymore…
Once it starts actually generating profits id assume. Or in most cases once it gets bought out.
Yeah, the definition is (or at least used to be) that a startup doesn’t have a business model yet.
When they're weaned from the teat of round after round of investment
Where are they getting $1.5 billion from? Is this business actually profitable?
Monopoly money using image generation ML tech for the design. Special partnership with HP for printing these notes.
They just did a fundraising round and raised like $13b
Haha what a funny way to say massive fraud and money laundering
Is any of that money actually going to the authors, or is this just like a fine they hand over and they donate some money to a charity or something?
Don’t be silly.
ah yes, a "startup" that has at least 1.5 billion
Glad to see they have to pay up but what was different about this compared to the similar case that Meta won the other day?
Meta has more money and is apparently immune from consequences?
No if you pay the president enough he will let you commit crimes against humanity.
I mean that's essentially the same thing I said just with more words.
Meta has money. Which makes them immune to consequences.
In this case, by way of bribes.
You didn't counter my statement. You just added to it.
It's not really a good thing though. $1.5bil will be a drop in the bucket for them. This is a settlement, which means it won't set any legal precedence.
Now that is how you build a Mote
Everyone cheering for this will see no benefit from it.
Rubes.
Next time don't download the pirate library.
Next time don't get caught downloading the pirate library.
FTFY