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Discord’s revenue growth has outpaced even its user growth. From $5 million in 2016, Discord grew revenue to $130 million in 2020, good for an astonishing 126% CAGR over four years.

impressive things accomplished by small teams.

• Instagram  had 13 employees when they were acquired by Facebook for $1 billion. They had 30 millions users at the time. Source


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• Mojang  (the company behind Minecraft) had 37 employees when they were acquired by Microsoft for $2.5 billion. At that time, Mojang had revenue of about $290 mil

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But what’s interesting is that even the people who do expect this sort of exodus don’t seem to believe that there will be another  single, unified  platform that just replaces Twitter. The look and functionality of the original is simple to replicate, but no one seems to think that everyone will just move to New Twitter; everyone seems to

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Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.

We're similarly shocked whenever authority figures who are supposed to know what they're doing make it plain that they don't, President Obama's healthcare launch being probably the most serious recent example. We shouldn't really be shocked, though. Because all these stories illustrate one of the most fundamental yet still under-appreciated truths ... See more

For the first ten people you hire, you want someone who will hit the ground running.