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10% weekly revenue growth would be great. That means a company doing $1M in revenue at t=0 will be doing $1.6T in revenue in 3 years. I'm always dubious of the
by mikekij 10y ago
10% weekly revenue growth would be great. That means a company doing $1M in revenue at t=0 will be doing $1.6T in revenue in 3 years.
I'm always dubious of these sorts of metrics.
- akharris 10y agoWhile it's not something you could sustain indefinitely, it's doable over shorter time frames. For instance, I've seen a number of companies do it during YC and for some time after that.
- mikekij 10y agoAbsolutely, Aaron. Didn't mean to challenge the value of your article. And it's certainly possible over short time periods. But I'm a big fan of growing at ~20% per year, if you can demonstrate that this could continue over a very long time period. (I bet Yo grew at 500% a week for a while.)
- jakozaur 10y ago10% weekly growth on $1M / ARR sounds way too far fetched. I doubt you can sustain that rate for any reasonable amount of time on that base. It means 10% weekly for 1 year, ~52 weeks, would give you $207M / ARR. Even in current climate, you can have successful IPO at $100M / ARR. Even the best companies of our time didn't grow that fast.