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Per WSJ reporting, quarterly losses grew $3B from Q1 to Q2 to reach $12.3B while revenue added only $1B to $6.7B, an 18% growth rate. (Gary Marcus) Marcus is a committed critic and his framing should be discounted, but the WSJ figures are the load-bearing part and are independently reported. Losses quadrupling while growth slows to 18% is a hard set of numbers to carry into an IPO.
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