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Just curious, can you think of another company besides Amazon where 'get big fast' actually worked? "Get big fast" was actually a rather symbolic phrase for th
by smakz 18y ago
Just curious, can you think of another company besides Amazon where 'get big fast' actually worked?
"Get big fast" was actually a rather symbolic phrase for the excesses of bubble spending. It worked for amazon and few others.
- mixmax 18y agoI'm not on firm ground here, but I would think that ebay, Cisco and paypal are all in that category.
- nostrademons 18y agoEBay got big slowly...they went almost 2 years between initial launch and VC funding. Also, they're one of the few companies that was profitable before the founder quit his day job.
- skmurphy 18y agoCisco grew profitably from before they took Sequoia's money. Some years they grew rapidly, but always profitably until the dotcom crash.
- pg 18y agoIt was used fairly successfully by both of the two most famous early Web cos, Netscape and Yahoo. In fact it was their example that made the idea popular.
- dhouston 18y agofacebook, youtube
- hello_moto 18y agoTechnically, Amazon made money but opted to grow faster. Youtube on the other hand didn't make money at all. They were losing money fast. They got lucky Google bought them.
- run4yourlives 18y agoNeither of which have turned much of a profit yet, AFAIK.