Sequoia’s Leone: In Venture, Big is the Enemy of Great

Re:Sequoia’s Leone: In Venture, Big is the Enemy of Great by gavanwoolery on Monday December 10, 2012 @04:43PM (#4901681)

"...growing faster than Facebook."

Please stop using growth as a metric -- just say, flat out, how many (legit) user accounts you have. If you grow from 1 user to 2 users in a day, you are growing at 200 percent, way faster than Facebook is...but you only have 2 users. If you grow from 10k to 20k, its only slightly less meaningless. Also, the 10,000 fake user accounts you are seeding your startup with do not count as legitimate growth.

Also, Facebook is probably plateauing. It is unlikely your growth match's Facebook's peak growth rate.

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Re:Sequoia’s Leone: In Venture, Big is the Enemy of Great by jessaustin on Monday December 10, 2012 @05:11PM (#4901798)

If you'll forgive my pedantry, I think doubling is traditionally described as "100%" growth, not "200%".

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Re:Sequoia’s Leone: In Venture, Big is the Enemy of Great by chimeracoder on Monday December 10, 2012 @05:34PM (#4901893)

Relevant XCKD: http://xkcd.com/1102/

Agreed - then it becomes easy to get worked up about a growth rate "slowing down" and misinterpret that as a plateau, even if the sheer numbers would indicate otherwise.

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