In our world, you sink or swim, and there are no excuses. - Paul Graham

AI startups seem to grow faster than previous startups. But this is just the latest stage in a consistent trend over the last 50 years. Each decade's startups grow faster than the previous decade's.

In both cases, what it all comes down to is users. You’d think that a company about to buy you would do a lot of research and decide for themselves how valuable your technology was. Not at all. What they go by is the number of users you have.

Great work tends to grow out of ideas that others have overlooked, and no idea is so overlooked as one that’s unthinkable.