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calrain on June 24, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: P-Hacking in Startups

You're right, but a startup has priorities a billion dollar company doesn't.

And a billion dollar company can spend more time on min/max than a startup that is trying to get to PMF.

gspetr on June 27, 2025 [–]

A billion dollar company isn't invincible, you can still be zeroed out by an unfavorable market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Communications

In 2025 dollars their peak would have been $59.5B. To wit, this is roughly what Doordash is worth today, and that's a top-5 YC company. It died 9 months later.

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