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
It's always Day 1: long-term market leadership matters more than quarterly profits or Wall Street approval.
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
Friction between demand and supply hides the true size of markets, and software is uniquely equipped to reduce it.
VideoPaul Graham on why starting with a “small, intense fire" is the key to startup growth
Paul Graham
Mar 2026 · 1 min read
Growth starts with a small, intense fire: a few users who want it badly, not many who mildly like it.
EssayAbout
Patrick Collison
1 min read
A founder's core commitments: economic growth, climate, housing, and the institutions built to advance them.
EssayQuestions
Patrick Collison
16 min read
Why certain sectors see costs explode while others plummet, and whether progress itself has fundamentally slowed.
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.