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Rob Walling

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Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

Adam Fox has the melt emoji because he's kind of like, are you kidding me, guys?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

Are you kidding me with this?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

And yeah, it's interesting.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

So if you haven't heard of triple, triple, double, double, it's a big thing in the venture capital world where it's like, all right, once you get to a million, then to have like a good growth trajectory or like a fundable or a unicorn growth trajectory, like a really solid one, get to a million and then you triple once to three, you triple again to nine, and then you double to 18, you double to 36 in that once a year.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

So that's over the course of you get to a million and that's four years from there, you're at 36 million ARR.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

And I mean, even that is pretty impressive growth.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

I get it that venture capitalists only want to fund decacorns now.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

But yeah, the idea that anything is dead, triple, triple, double, double is dead.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

And you have to go from, you have to 15x and then six and a half x. I mean, that's essentially what this is, right?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

1 million to 15 million in a year and

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

15 to 100.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

Do you have to, to be venture fundable?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

I don't think so.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

If you triple, triple, double, double, I still think, yeah, you'll be overshadowed by those that are doing the lovable and the end-to-end growth curves, right?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

The one to 15 to 100.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

But can you still raise rounds?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

I do believe you can.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

I don't think it's dead.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

This is where you have to consider your source, right?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

You'll see certain folks on the internet, especially big influencers who are trying to