Finance & Corporate Jargon · Managing Director level

"Unit economics"

"Unit economics" means the revenue and costs tied to a single sale or customer, showing whether the business makes money on each one.

Say this instead: per-sale profitability

How "Unit economics" shows up at work

The phrase that separates VCs who read your deck from ones who actually stress-tested it. Turns up in board meetings when growth looks great but profit does not, as a polite way to ask whether selling more will fix things or just accelerate the losses.

Buzzword

Before we scale, we need to make sure unit economics are solid.

Plain English

Before we scale, we need to confirm each sale actually makes us money.

Corporate Rank: Managing Director · Category: Finance & Corporate Jargon

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