Didn't mean to leave you hanging -- I deleted the comment you replied to b/c I felt I was going on too long on this. Yeah, deliberately slowing down does seem

Didn't mean to leave you hanging -- I deleted the comment you replied to b/c I felt I was going on too long on this. Yeah, deliberately slowing down does seem outside the expected startup model. If it is true that they must grow at breakneck speed, and that they must dramatically improve their political positioning, they may have found themselves in a coffin corner. But is pg looking at sustained growth as a necessary condition of startup success? Or as the best heuristic for assessing startup health amid lots of uncertainty? If the latter then particular cases merit inspection. Uber has proved its market. The political issues are obviously strategic. There is no one way to win and they should think hard about applying conventional startup thinking to their own position.