unprofitable

Do you mean the publisher would become unprofitable, or become less profitable?

But unprofitable, angel and venture-backed startups that are pressured to grow (and that includes headcount) are another thing.

Then you have to keep doing that while you remain unprofitable so that the business keeps on running.

Of course, it is not a bad thing to be unprofitable for a period of time.

If users reject security advice because they studied the costs and benefits, and found it unprofitable given the risks, then that's rational.

There was a story about how unprofitable Reddit is [1] and given that one would expect it to start running out of cash.

The prices in the building industry are rising so much that it already is unprofitable to build nuclear power in the west today.

Many great companies are massively unprofitable while in their early growth stage, then become massively profitable in their later years, and are valued accordingly.

Disney will still like it, because it will be less money than lobbying, but it will allow older now-unprofitable works to enter the public domain.

They lose money on residential service, so if they can go by the book for regulatory purposes and still shed those unprofitable customers, they're winning.

And yes, good governance includes making life unprofitable for loan sharks.

Being a musician was an unprofitable pursuit long before digitalization.

Growth isn't impressive when its just more of the same, largely unprofitable, "manboy" demographic.

Imagine a miner paying money for a mining rig and then continuing to mine even when it is unprofitable to "pay off the rig".

Call me old fashioned, but I "value" profitable companies more than unprofitable ones.

Like the Amiga, it was a little half-baked and then ultimately unprofitable, but for a short time I remember thinking, "Wow, this kind of tracking could be the future.