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One percent weekly growth is not venture startup scale
“If you think you have fit in your market, and it's just growing one percent a week, you might have a great business on your hands, but it's probably not startup scale.”
Consumer social product success cannot be predicted before viral growth
“And I've watched our attempts to invest in social products, and I've watched my friends try to build Social things and stuff that works, you never realize it's going to work until it really does.”
Growth is a byproduct of product-market fit, not the primary goal
“Growth isn't the goal. And I think this is something that people sometimes get a little backwards. Growth is the result of having the right product and the right market, right? It's because you did the other things right that you get growth. You can't invent g…”
YC acts as a forcing function for founders to focus entirely
“And then the three months of YC itself is such a great time for founders to be able to push off everything else, right? It's this great excuse to focus. Anyone who wants to talk to you that isn't a customer who you need to talk to or a user you need to talk to…”