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  • You did a pet peeve of mine….

    255% growth is really easy when the numbers are so small.

    I worked at a place once where they were celebrating a new product because “it had 100% growth!” and ragging on another because it only had 0.5% growth and was obviously dying off.

    Thing was, the product with 100% growth went from something like 200 to 400 customers, so it was technically 100%, and the 0.5% one added 800 customers but already had something like 160,000 customers so 200 customers would have been a rounding error to it.

    My point is, don’t just focus on the percentages when you’re dealing with such large disparities, it can be disingenuous.