I wish to emphasize that this is one of those "Difficult to appreciate from the outside, extraordinarily obvious from the inside" facts about the tech industry.https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1087590716887334913 …
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A company growing at ~2X per year will, in year N+5, hire more people than worked at the company in year N in *every biweekly hiring class.* Mentally think of software companies you were aware of in 2013 and how big they were. If they haven't fallen off the curve, welp.
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In another industry (installed solar capacity), this is a very interesting graph. Your tweet can be paraphrased roughly as in year N+10 the world will install as much solar every fortnight as was installed in total in year N.pic.twitter.com/j9nLXawsin
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I think a better answer is that a lot of things that look exponentially are actually Gompertz (exponential is a subset of Gompertz so this is sorta trivially true - but I mean with non-trivial parameters for exponential decay of growth).
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Eventually sooner or later you'll run out of quality sites for Solar PV power generation on Earth so one expects curve to flat-line in the future. Law of diminishing returns apply.
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