In the microeconomic sense you're right, in the macroeconomic sense you're wrong.
Selling off a company based on users that aren't monetizable is basically a ponzi scheme that just passes the buck to the next idiot in line until it all collapses.
Selling off a company based on users that aren't monetizable is basically a ponzi scheme that just passes the buck to the next idiot in line until it all collapses.
And even if it were, that quote would still be stupid because founders who don't monetize get rich all the time.