I've seen that comic a lot (or perhaps variants of it), but I find it hard to relate to, since all the examples I see demonstrate almost the opposite. The orga

I've seen that comic a lot (or perhaps variants of it), but I find it hard to relate to, since all the examples I see demonstrate almost the opposite. The organic bottom path is 5 steps instead of 4, but they're also much bigger steps. If you know what you want to build and how to build it, it's drastically less work to just build it from the start. Tesla went from founding to producing the Roadster in less than 5 years. Honda took decades just to move from motorcycles to cars. There have been several electric motorcycle companies in recent years, and none has been terribly successful so far. I think the organic path makes sense when each step on it is a simpler profitable company, not just a simpler product.