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Olga Vidisheva

02/24/15

@ Y Combinator

We grew over 700% last year, and the site didn't crash once after bringing in the right team.

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Olga Vidisheva Speaks at Female Founders Conference 2015

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Olga Vidisheva Speaks at Female Founders Conference 2015

02/24/15

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Kathryn Minshew

03/13/14

@ Y Combinator

Even with many flaws, we saw incredible user growth, with 20,000 visitors in the first month, which encouraged us to keep going despite initial setbacks.

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Andrew Mason

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

We expanded rapidly, adding staff from 50 to over a thousand in just a few months, which made it challenging to maintain a cohesive company culture.

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Olga Vidisheva

02/24/15

@ Y Combinator

Growth is everything; however, my website would crash with every sixth visitor due to technology not scaling properly.

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Werner Vogels

11/12/18

@ Y Combinator

Last year, we launched 1,400 new features and services, and as the number of teams grows, the pace of development accelerates.

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Travis Kalanick

10/25/13

@ Y Combinator

We're experiencing 26% month-over-month growth, which means in 12 months, we could be 16 times bigger than we are now, indicating rapid expansion.

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Aadit Palicha

04/18/25

@ Y Combinator

We went from close to zero in scale to 200 million in run scale in just six months, which was a crazy growth period for us.

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Kathryn Minshew

06/20/14

@ Y Combinator

After launching, we grew from reaching about a hundred thousand people a month to a million and a half a month.

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Jeff Lawson

05/24/25

@ a16z speedrun

After realizing we needed to expand our sales team, we went from 12 to 100 salespeople in less than a year to better serve our growing customer base.

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Eric Migicovsky

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

Our team grew significantly after launching, and we shipped hundreds of thousands of watches worldwide, despite initially feeling uncertain about our direction.