Crazy Reddit Finds #18: A founder spoke about how we've been sharing the wrong success metric... He said his company had been tracking MRR religiously for six months, posting milestones from the dashboard But then they subtracted their actual expenses and suddenly the real numbers were a lot less impressive... Tool costs alone were $80-90/mo. Here is what stood out: - Every founder community celebrates MRR. Stripe screenshots with a number highlighted blow up all the time. - But $3K MRR with $2K in expenses is a fundamentally different business than $3K MRR with $200 in expenses. - The expenses that erode margin are not from bad hires or failed campaigns anymore. It's these $5 and $20 subscriptions that stack across tools and projects. Now let's recalculate but this time, revenue minus all tools, hosting, fees, contractors, everything...