prove out
Example Sentences
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“A decade ago, a lot of the questions were really fair. Spotify had to be able to prove out if it could scale as an economic engine. People didn’t know if streaming would scale as a model,” said Sam Duboff, Spotify’s global head of marketing and policy of music business.
From Los Angeles Times
WSJLI: I know that’s hard for brands to do, when so many marketing teams are under pressure to look at the data to prove out everything they’re doing.
Both companies “still need to prove out the product development, manufacturing ramp up and customer appetite for the new turbines, but they would boost the supply outlook for the industry,” analysts at Morgan Stanley said in a research note.
Of course, the managers and funds whose portfolios prove out through the cycle will likely end up with bigger shares of inflows and assets in the future.
They also said they believe a complete overhaul of the business "will prove out of reach".
From BBC
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