It would have been cool to read stories about a few more examples of slingshots, as the author calls them.

Animats 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Right. Just at the point I expected to find the list, there's only a "Subscribe" button to ignore.

Hm. Examples:

- Amazon? Long road to profitability, but there was fast early growth.

- Space-X, which took a long time to get to a successful launch.

- Someone already mentioned Nvidia.

- Waymo, which took about 15 years from start to real service, and now is doubling in size more than once a year.

- ASML, founded in 1984 and took a long time to become the dominant player in photolithograpy.

- Roblox, tiny for over a decade, then gradually found the right market and really grew.

Who else.

	▲	akharris 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		These are great. I particularly like Waymo because of aggressively most of the media/talking heads wrote them off as "never going to beat Tesla" because google. In the end, they took a fundamentally different approach at all levels of the product and won.
	▲	aaron695 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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akharris 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Fair enough. I definitely should have added nvidia to the list.