We built systems that prize speed above all else, and in doing so we lost the most fundamental lesson that nature teaches: speed of growth makes you fragile. The tree that shoots up fastest is the first to fall in a storm. The invasive species that spreads the quickest chokes out everything around it and then collapses when conditions change.
One reason Replit's revenue is growing so fast is that they're in the equivalent of a high-performance climb. They weren't just sitting around doing nothing during the preceding years of slower growth. They were building the stuff that's helping them grow fast now.
I did not make a single $ from 20VC for three years.
4 shows per week for 3 years and not $1.
For the first 150 episodes, I did not get more than 1,000 plays per episode.
This is a game of who can survive the longest.
Do not quit.