If you want to understand startups, understand growth. Growth drives everything in this world. Growth is why startups usually work on technology — because ideas for fast-growing companies are so rare that the best way to find new ones is to discover those recently made viable by change, and technology is the best source of rapid change.
Growth makes successful companies so valuable that the expected value is high even though the risk is too. Growth is why VCs want to invest in startups.
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