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> get an idea out and then do everything you can to make it grow 30% each week

Compounded? After 8 weeks you go from 10 customers to 81, seems doable. But after 6 months you'd have 5,428 customers. Maybe if it was an App Store app? But if you have to talk to any of them, yikes. Might not be the most sustainable rate of growth?

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Yeah, it's hard. But sustaining that is how you get the next Facebook.

So YC is mostly just for unicorns?

Yeah, the entire venture capital model is based on outlier outcomes. They don't want 2x or even 10x returns, they want 1000x returns on the outliers, so in aggregate they can hopefully 5-10x the fund overall.

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