> You say that as like turning a profit is a bad thing.

This claim has no basis in any reality I am familiar with.

Tone is difficult to convey via the written word, and there is a tendency for the mind to supply it when reading. Read the parent paragraph aloud, and play with the inflection of key words. Your initial tonal interpretation was one of many possibilities.

It's almost as if you replied to the wrong comment.

The term "startup" does have the connotation of aspiring to high levels of growth rather than steady, possibly mediocre profitability.