[wmf]

Running a successful startup is crazy and unnatural; that's why it's so rare and that's also why there's backlash against that becoming the default mode of thinking.

Based on a quick calculation, to get from zero to one (billion) users takes just under six years at 7%/week growth.

[BoiledCabbage]

The crazy part is people conflating starting up a business with trying to build a billion dollar business.

Thinking anything not a grand slam is a strikeout is idotic and perverse incentives.

[ikeboy]

Starting from 0 it takes infinity years regardless of growth rate.