[HN Gopher] The world needs more modest, linear growth companies
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       The world needs more modest, linear growth companies
        
       Author : ezekg
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2025-05-13 21:18 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | Someone wrote:
       | With linear growth in #customers/revenue/profit, percentage
       | growth in #customers/revenue/profit drops every year.
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       | In the limit it becomes zero.
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       | Because of that, I think few CEOs would be happy with it in the
       | long term.
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       | Yes, you may be profitable and the best in your branch of work
       | and be the largest in your branch of work and be a good employer,
       | but if you're close to that point and see a smaller company in
       | your branch of work grow and thus take market share, you should
       | be concerned that they will out-compete you in the long term.
        
       | DrillShopper wrote:
       | This is completely infeasible for a publicly traded company or
       | one one VC investors unless you want nobody to invest in you.
        
       | dexwiz wrote:
       | So what are these businesses? How do you prevail when your
       | competitor isn't playing the same game? Better mousetraps don't
       | matter when someone else is selling 100x than you using VC
       | powered marketing.
       | 
       | DDH has a cult of personality, and Basecamp wouldn't be the same
       | without it.
        
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