It was so brave of you to criticize a company on Hacker News for not being profitable.
If you have something informative to say, I'd like to hear it.
The claim by the parent is that they aren't just some new startup, but that they've been in the game for quite a while (12 years by parent's numbers) and are just now expecting profit. This isn't exactly the same as a blanket criticism of startups that aren't profitable due to the sheer magnitude of time for StumbleUpon.