I'm skeptical of 10x - I buy into 5x. Biggest one for me is people. If you can recruit, retain, motivate a team - you are going to have an impact. After 20 hir

I'm skeptical of 10x - I buy into 5x. Biggest one for me is people. If you can recruit, retain, motivate a team - you are going to have an impact. After 20 hires or so that impact is potentially significantly higher than someone who is not as active or gets bogged down. You also start to get a good network of contractors / partners who trust you / that you will deliver / that will engage with you much more readily even when they aren't taking on other clients or work or whatever. This has a further ripple effect. Just a view from the sidelines.