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I am not personally a fan of Patreon but this analysis is weird. They took VC instead of a bank loan because they were too risky for a bank to give them a loan. The VCs are demanding higher returns because they have to cover the losses of all the startups that *didn’t* succeed.
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I don't want to be doom and gloom, but Patreon is about to eat itself. Or, more specifically, the investors who demand geometric growth are about to demand Patreon eat itself. cnbc.com/2019/01/23/cro
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Patreon is arguably not a "startup" - no proprietary tech: It's a membership site w/3rd party payment drop-in - no exponential growth potential: its customers are small subsisters, fragmented, expensive to acquire, w/linear income streams (time=income) They should've bootstrapped
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