Topic
Growth
Every resource in the archive tagged with growth.
14 resources
Letter2014 Letter to Shareholders
Jeff Bezos
Apr 2015 · 22 min read
The four traits of a dreamy business, and how Marketplace, Prime, and AWS each earned the label.
Letter2011 Letter to Shareholders
Jeff Bezos
Apr 2012 · 16 min read
Why self-service platforms beat gatekeepers: AWS, FBA, and KDP let improbable ideas get tried.
Letter2002 Letter to Shareholders
Jeff Bezos
Apr 2003 · 12 min read
How Amazon turned customer experience into a fixed cost to deliver both great service and low prices.
Letter1997 Letter to Shareholders
Jeff Bezos
Mar 1998 · 7 min read
Jeff Bezos' original letter to shareholders is reprinted from Amazon's 1997 Annual Report.
EssayStartup Advice, Briefly
Sam Altman
4 min read
Start with a project, not a company, so you can find something great to work on without premature commitment.
EssayStartups in 13 Sentences
Paul Graham
Feb 2009 · 6 min read
Thirteen principles for building a startup, from picking cofounders to understanding your users above all else.
VideoTobi Lutke explains what the VCs who passed on Shopify got wrong
Tobi Lütke
Mar 2026 · 1 min read
“What a lot of free-market thinkers don’t understand is that between the demand and eventual supply lies friction."
VideoPaul Graham on why starting with a “small, intense fire" is the key to startup growth
Paul Graham
Mar 2026 · 1 min read
"You have to know who those first users are and how you're going to get them."
EssayAbout
Patrick Collison
1 min read
Patrick Collison's interests and involvement in economic growth, entrepreneurship, climate, housing, and progress studies.
EssayQuestions
Patrick Collison
16 min read
A collection of open-ended questions about economics, progress, institutions, and society from a founder's perspective.
EssaySuper-Successful Companies
Sam Altman
5 min read
The defining traits of founders whose startups become extremely successful.
EssayStartup Playbook
Sam Altman
34 min read
A founder's guide to the core elements of starting a successful startup: idea, team, product, and execution.
EssaySuperlinear Returns
Paul Graham
Oct 2023 · 19 min read
In most fields, small differences in performance create outsized differences in results because of exponential growth and thresholds.
EssayDo Things That Don't Scale
Paul Graham
Jul 2013 · 19 min read
Why successful startups succeed by doing manually unscalable things first, like recruiting users one at a time.