Growth Health audit
Growth Rate: Are you on a billion-dollar curve?
Paul Graham argues a startup comes down to two numbers: your growth rate and how long it lasts. This is not a page audit. You answer a few questions about your revenue, market, and users, and we compute the compound math, then read it through his framework. Brutally honest, grounded in your actual numbers.
Who this audit is for
- Founders who want to know, honestly, whether their growth rate is billion-dollar shaped or just fine
- Operators staring at a revenue chart who cannot tell ignition from a plateau
- Anyone who read Paul Graham's essay and wants the math run on their own numbers
What you get
- Your compound monthly growth rate across the full window and the trailing 3 and 6 months
- A 0-100 growth-health score and letter grade anchored to PG's 15%/month bar
- A month-over-month revenue table with the growth rate on every step
- Projections of where each growth rate lands you in 1, 2, and 3 years
- Your time to a $1B revenue run-rate vs the 15%/month path
- Your phases read off the actual series, plus the risks to sustained growth
- Copy-paste prompts for the specific moves that re-accelerate the curve
Common issues this audit catches
- A headline growth rate flattered by a cold-start ramp off zero
- Revenue that plateaued in the last quarter while the lifetime chart still looks great
- Acquisition stalling while expansion quietly carries the whole number
- A small market that caps how long growth can possibly last
- Low paid conversion leaving easy growth on the table
- Mistaking one big month for a trend
Related angles
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