"Runway"
"Runway" means the number of months a company can continue operating before it runs out of cash at its current spending rate.
Say this instead: months of cash left
How "Runway" shows up at work
Startup founders use this constantly, and investors use it to apply pressure without saying "you're burning too fast." Twelve months of runway sounds fine until someone in the room does the math on headcount.
Buzzword
With our current burn rate, we have about eight months of runway left.
Plain English
At this rate, we have about eight months of cash left.
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