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Interesting read. As someone trying to build my own company it's nice to have Seth reminding us that the companies that have sudden surges in users is not the n
by tswartz 13y ago
Interesting read. As someone trying to build my own company it's nice to have Seth reminding us that the companies that have sudden surges in users is not the norm. For the ones that do have a sudden increase, most were working diligently for many months or years before.
This part rang particularly true for me: "The new fast company isn't fast at all. It's gradual, slow, measured, and organized. It's making small bets. Which, it turns out, is the fastest way of all to get back to where you want to be."
- tannerc 13y agoParticularly interesting because this was written ten years ago! The transparency of the web makes it easy to fall into the trap of believing that many of the recent successes of businesses was "overnight," but that's hardly ever the case. Tumblr was founded in 2007, started before that, and only sold recently. But who was fully aware of those years of work?