In Peter Thiel’s book Zero to One, he basically says that every entrepreneur should want a monopoly business, which is a very Capitalist sentiment. If you can own the market, do it!

Add venture capital to that idea and you get businesses that often grow faster than internal culture is able to scale.

This can completely destroy the internal engine of innovation that caused the company to grow in the first place.

Exponential growth does not always necessarily equate to good things. Cancer growth rate, explosive chemical reactions, and rate of stock market crashes are all things increase exponentially (or at a greater than linear rate.)

It’s important to look at what the numbers actually mean. Are you selectively choosing to view only a few statistics to pad your wallet (stock value, company size, revenue,) while ignoring others (expected longevity, rate of turnover, resource depletion, current amount of laws broken that you have not been challenged on yet.)

Google and Amazon are both companies that are well known for fueling their growth by seeking government subsidy or avoiding taxes based on where they place their headquarters and how they negotiate tax breaks with government authorities.

A true measure of benefit for those companies would be to look at the companies in a local area that are going out of business due to them, and then compare the taxes the government is losing from those companies & employees over a 10–20 year historic period, vs. the projected gain in taxes from the new companies & employees that are getting tax breaks for relocation.

Exponential growth is only exciting if you were lucky enough to get in at the bottom.

Everyone wants money, and if someone is getting it exponentially, it means you’re that much farther away from getting it yourself. But Americans love to live vicariously through other people’s indiscriminate wealth acquisition, instead of looking at what it actually means for them.