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If your company doesn’t produce a hockey stick graph for growth by the end of the first year, you’ve done something wrong. Don’t expect it to become one of the fastest-growing companies, just shut it down! Seems drastic, no? Sadly, that’s what many founders are led to believe. The truth is, it can take several years to really figure things out. Some of the fastest-growing companies today began really slowly. To debunk the myths around how long it takes to really see significant growth, I’ve invited Ooshma Garg, the CEO and Founder of Gobble. Gobble is a weekly dinner-kit delivery service that helps busy people cook dinner in just 10 minutes with one pan. It is growing quickly, doing $100M in sales. But it didn’t happen overnight. It took 3+ years of twists and turns through the trough of sorrow. This is one of my favorite episodes because Ooshma does a great job of talking openly about issues that many founders struggle with like: - why you should pursue your idea, even when you don’t have a funding or a tech