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> Bonus: Growing the market by 0.01% gets you more customers than taking 0.01% of the existing market.

I see what you were getting at, but you erred in this case: the two are identical.

If the market is a million people, growing the market by 0.01% causes you to have 100 of the 1,000,100 people in the market, while claiming 0.01% of the existing market causes you to have 100 of the 1,000,000 people in the market. So the absolute figure is the same, and the fraction you have is smaller.




This is why I shouldn't try to do math at 4am. You're absolutely right.




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