According to Xu, HeyGen hasn't really burned cash since it reached $10 million in ARR three years ago. Instead, the company proudly tracks a couple of other metrics: revenue for every dollar raised (now up to $2.70 for each $1 invested) and revenue per employee (now up to $1.5 million per full-time staffer).
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If a startup launched this product and was able to do the demos that they can do, that startup would be able to raise at I would say easily a billion just based on current market conditions. But they're a startup is evaluated a lot differently of course than a you know public company that has spent somewhere in the range of three half billion dollars building this product.
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Musk has always been able to do is to create this narrative over numbers that's like no one else in history.
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