{"slug": "show-hn-grade-your-growth-rate-using-paul-graham-s-two-number-math", "title": "Show HN: Grade your growth rate using Paul Graham's two-number math", "summary": "A new tool grades startup growth rates against Paul Graham's 15%-a-month benchmark, analyzing monthly revenue to project billion-dollar trajectories and provide actionable growth insights.", "body_md": "# Are you on a\n\nbillion-dollar growth curve?\n\nPaul Graham says a startup comes down to two numbers: your growth rate and how long it lasts. Answer a few questions and we measure both, honestly, against his 15%-a-month bar.\n\n## Connect your LLM Gateway\n\nBring your own key. We run the analysis on your model of choice.\n\n## Answer a few questions about your business\n\nThe only required input is your monthly revenue. Everything else sharpens the read.\n\n## Two numbers, per Paul Graham\n\nIn his talk [How to Earn a Billion Dollars](https://paulgraham.com/earn.html), Paul Graham argues a startup's outcome comes down to just two numbers: its growth rate, and how long that growth lasts. At 15% a month, revenue multiplies about 4,384x over five years, enough to make a typical founder a billionaire. Neither number requires cheating.\n\nYou get it by making something users love so much they tell their friends. We measure your compound monthly rate and grade it against the 15% bar.\n\nYou get it by being in a big market. Market size sets how long growth can compound. Cheating cannot manufacture either number.\n\n## A real growth verdict\n\n- Your compound monthly growth rate, across the full window and the trailing 3 and 6 months\n- A 0-100 growth-health score and letter grade, anchored to PG's 15%/month bar\n- Projections of where each growth rate lands you in 1, 2, and 3 years\n- Your time to a $1B revenue run-rate vs the 15%/month path\n- Your phases read off the actual revenue series: ignition, scaling, plateau\n- Copy-paste prompts for the specific growth moves that re-accelerate the curve", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-grade-your-growth-rate-using-paul-graham-s-two-number-math", "canonical_source": "https://www.brutal-audit.com/growth", "published_at": "2026-06-14 22:58:43+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-14 23:11:47.194425+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Paul Graham", "YC"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-grade-your-growth-rate-using-paul-graham-s-two-number-math", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-grade-your-growth-rate-using-paul-graham-s-two-number-math.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-grade-your-growth-rate-using-paul-graham-s-two-number-math.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-grade-your-growth-rate-using-paul-graham-s-two-number-math.jsonld"}}