Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.
In a world with AWS and pay-as-you go services, it's more and more possible.
Infrstructure expenses are not what sinks most companies.
£19 19s 6d = £19.975
£20 0s 6d = £20.025Difficult to fathom why the fashion for these passed, because such systems provide so many advantages. A good example is the Spanish system of division into 34, which permits straightforward further division into not only 2 but also 17 pieces - a case very difficult to handle with the modern restrictive, awkward and inconvenient decimal systems.
negative net worth = brankrupt (misery)
It's worth noting that this is the antithesis of the stereotypical SV startup culture.