Vol. I — Est. 2024
Operating leverage
When costs are mostly fixed, small revenue moves produce outsized profit moves, in both directions.
The question that settles it
If revenue rose ten percent tomorrow, how much of that falls straight to profit because the costs are already paid?
When it breaks
When the cost base is actually variable (it scales with each unit), or when volume growth forces a step-change in fixed costs, the lever disappears.
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