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| Jan 19, 2020 at 22:04 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | I may be a pessimist, but 1000% growth in three years is something I would not expect from StackOverflow. They are not really operating in such an innovative or disruptive business area. | |
| Jan 19, 2020 at 14:29 | comment | added | ChrisW |
@Nij Sorry for the confusion -- it's that I'm used to approximating numbers -- and I think that only an approximation is appropriate in this case. And given this definition of a "round number" -- A round number is informally considered to be an integer that ends with one or more "0"s (zero-digit) in a given base -- it seems to me that 8 and 10 are the same order of magnitude, using base-10 arithmetic and using base-2.
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| Jan 19, 2020 at 11:13 | comment | added | ChrisW | And that matches what Joel said earlier in the same, about choosing a CEO -- i.e. that they were looking for someone who hadn't been a CEO before (I don't know why) but who had "seen the playbook" and who would take the company through its next (10×) evolution, from 70 to 700. | |
| Jan 19, 2020 at 9:53 | comment | added | ChrisW | It (doubling for the next three years) is quoted from the end of the interview with Joel above -- said by the interviewer not by Joel or the CEO, but still, said as if that's obvious or well-known or a shared understanding, or at least approximately the hoped-for outcome. | |
| Jan 19, 2020 at 9:49 | comment | added | Nij | 560 and 700 are both round numbers, that doesn't make any sense. You could have left out the parenthetical entirely, or left out the speculative timeframe, or just not speculated at all. | |
| Jan 19, 2020 at 9:44 | comment | added | ChrisW | In round numbers, 560 and 700 are the same order of magnitude. | |
| Jan 19, 2020 at 6:54 | comment | added | Nij | Three doubles is only an eightfold increase. 560 is a long way short of 700. | |
| Jan 19, 2020 at 3:04 | history | answered | ChrisW | CC BY-SA 4.0 |