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Gazelles and Gorillas - part 2

April 21st, 2010

Following my post of April 19, Gazelles and Gorillas - high growth startups, I went back to the chapter 8 of my book where I compared the growth of the European and American gorillas. I had not computed then the 5-year and 10 year growth of these very successful companies. The following table gives the results of my work this morning. These are not gazelles (20% growth), there extremely fast gazelles!

Gorillas seem to grow at 100% rates or doubled their sales each year on average… Now growth is never an easy path (ask Steve Jobs about Apple growth!) so let me add much more details. Below, you will see the yearly growth of all these companies and you may notice there are sometimes a lot of ups and downs!

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One Response to “Gazelles and Gorillas - part 2”

  1. Start-Up: the book » Blog Archive » Innovation is not about small or large, it’s about fast. Says:
    January 11th, 2012 at 9:54 am

    [...] he also implicitely say that 65% of disruptive innovations come from new comers, not incumbents. Gazelles still have a bright [...]

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