Exercise of valuations and capital market pricing relies on calculating future expectations, future multiples and future revenues. Numbers put in excel sheets by analysts.
Doesn't it seem like that the entire basis of capital market pricing just made up?
Can you have PE if there is no E or negative E?
If a startup never makes money, will applying higher multiple for scaling/hyper scaling make it bigger or lesser negative?
If startup has negative operating cashflow since inception, can it even be considered a legitimate business?