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Slow growth
Call it the 10/10 rule: a decade to build the new platform, and a decade for it to find a mass audience.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
One of the things about the Valley that I find outsiders miss the most is that it feels like it's all moving so fast, and yet, any of the important companies or any of the important products take a decade or more to build. Everything important takes a long time, so a lot of it actually feels quite slow. Long-term orientation is absolutely necessary... See more
Marc Andreessen • Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future
Sam Parr (The Hustle) and Alex Lieberman/Austin Rief (Morning Brew) just shared how they went from 0 to a combined $100M+ exit. Here's their year-by-year revenue and 5 strategies that worked:Their revenue growth: Morning Brew:• 2016: $25K revenue, 100K subscribers• 2017: $300K, 100K subs• 2018: $3.1M, 1M subs• 2019: $13.1M, $3M profit• 2020: $20M, ... See more
Sam Parr (The Hustle) and Alex Lieberman/Austin Rief (Morning Brew) just… | Nathan May
It's hard to get around that, but the way you can do it is if you build in utility. And I think that is largely because advertising was a hell of a drug for these companies for so long. That is why all these big internet advertising platforms were slow to become marketplaces, because it would have a temporary negative financial impact. Th... See more
Gavin Baker • Security Error | Columbia Business School
That is not a growth juggernaut. In fact, that sounds downright bad. Like, maybe you should shut the company down because it’s obviously not working. Or at least, there should be an existential struggle about whether to continue.