Ramen profitable does not mean the company isn't worth a billion dollars. People aren't suggesting that your endgoal is to be ramen profitable - the mindset is to get ramen profitable as fast as possible so you have a foundation to build a billion dollar business. Venture capital does not have use for companies that make $5k a month. That doesn't mean it's a bad company, but I suggest taking another look at the PG essay about black swan farming to understand what they are looking for as venture capitalists. For $5k a month MRR, I think that's really only able to be funded via bootstrapping and friends/family if you're privileged enough to have access to the latter.