Comment by vasco

My usual take on this is that if you do a great job, you'll grow at the speed your market is growing, ride the wave so to speak. The price of admission is doing a great job though, the rest of the comment doesn't apply blindly.

If your market is having a hockey stick growth because it's new or in vogue, even underperforming teams will outgrow the best team in the world stuck in a linear growth market.

So I chuckle a bit when founders try to convince you that they are the reason for the hockey stick, or that they are the reason for the linear growth. You're riding the wave more than anything. The main difference then being if you end up being the one chosen by Softbank to aggregate the market or if you'll be one of the ones that are bought out by them.