Moubeche: Startup growth is a sequence of S-curves, not exponential growth
Guillaume Moubeche · Guillaume Moubeche, lempire Founder: Bootsrapping to $30M ARR Through Content & Brand | E1238 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Dec 13, 2024 · at 25:10
Guillaume Moubeche is the founder of lempire, a bootstrapped SaaS company. He discusses the dynamics of growth plateaus and scaling.
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“When you have like an exponential growth, it's actually not mathematically, it's never truly an exponential. It's always a S curve and the companies that maintain, you know, that, and that make it looks like an exponential are the one that were smart enough to plan for the next X curve.”
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