I’m sympathetic to Robi’s claim that growth rates may be a superexponential function of population. I suspect that the argument around people bouncing ideas off each other might be just one of the mechanisms.
I don’t want to try to articulate all of those mechanisms here, but here’s another one:
Imagine some proportion (e.g. 1%) of the population has some issue which is holding back their productivity (e.g. an illness or way of working which could be improved with a productivity app)
If the total population is small, then resolving that need may be unfeasible because the addressable market is small
However in a larger population this issue could be resolved, enabling that proportion of the population to be more productive
I’m sympathetic to Robi’s claim that growth rates may be a superexponential function of population. I suspect that the argument around people bouncing ideas off each other might be just one of the mechanisms.
I don’t want to try to articulate all of those mechanisms here, but here’s another one:
Imagine some proportion (e.g. 1%) of the population has some issue which is holding back their productivity (e.g. an illness or way of working which could be improved with a productivity app)
If the total population is small, then resolving that need may be unfeasible because the addressable market is small
However in a larger population this issue could be resolved, enabling that proportion of the population to be more productive