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That numbers game he was playing is equivalent to the classic flawed thinking:

> If we just get 1% market share of this billion dollar industry then we'll be rich! 1%, that's tiny! This will be so EASY!

Just 500 customers! How easy! Give me a (*(&#$ break...

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I'm pretty sure he said getting 500 paying customers is still pretty hard. Just not as hard as getting the millions of customers needed to "be the next Facebook."

He was definitely making it out to be "obviously" way easier. It's not.

It is way easier - than becoming the next facebook. He's right on that point too. Were you not listening to what he said?

He also said pretty clearly - getting the 500 users is still pretty hard. I'm pretty sure he even had a slide that said "It's still pretty hard".

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