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@gabrielesvelto@mas.to Low cash on hand != zero cash flow. None of these have zero cash flow, and you *want* debt to increase if you have good reason to think you can buy more cashflow with the money than it costs to service the debt - that motivated my startup comparison. Debt to equity is meaningless unless you expect the company to fail. Oracle has a *market cap* of $446bn, or ~3x their debt, and costs of maintaining their debt equivalent to ~20%-25% of operating income. They are not at riskl.