The truth for most businesses is it varies by month and where you are on the journey. Some months you loose money, some phases you hire aggressively and have a high burn rate during growth. Some months, be it seasonal or phase, you make money and it goes straight to the bottom line, directly to the owners. Other times you make money on paper and in reality it’s just stock on a balance sheet, and you borrow to pay the taxes on the profits.

The reality here, and point of this comment is that the comments here make profits look like a straight line chart that’s very predictable. Often this is not the case.