Startup & VC Jargon · Vice President level

"Runway"

"Runway" means the number of months a company can continue operating before it runs out of cash at its current spending rate.

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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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