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> the company is now generating a profit excluding interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (positive EBITDA)

EBITDA and cash flow are useful metrics to look at when evaluating whether or not a company can service debt, but I'm wondering why they needed to open a $600M credit line last month if they are gearing up for an IPO?

I guess they need a bit of extra cash on hand to pay off taxes as well as interest on their last 2 loans (funding rounds) from JPMorgan?



It's worth noting that they replaced an expiring $500million line of credit that had not been touched. So you may be reading a little much into what may just be prudent financial planning


Hadn't known about that, thx for the info, should have been included in the article. New credit line makes sense then, not much to see here.


In the (approximated) words of Matt Levine, ask for credit when you don't need it, because when you do need it, they won't give it to you.




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