I see common patterns like a focus on media and coding, hiring elite talent, and rapid iteration, enabling quick growth.
Yeah. That's a question. So I recently put together a leaderboard that tracks super lean and native companies growing its revenue very quickly. So I think the criteria is under 50 people, over 5,000,000 in ARR, and less than five years old. So that's kind of the criteria, and you'll see some really incredible companies, like, you know, anywhere from mid journey, like, 500,000,000 revenue with about 40 people or Cursor that at one point is a hundred million with 20 people to startups, like, futures and labels, 40,000,000, 20 five people, or, open our 12,000,008 people.
So, really just incredible seeing all these companies grow and get to scale so quickly in one or two years, which is, I think, something you wasn't really possible before. So some of the common as I see is that I am seeing a lot of companies in the media space, like AI media for images, our video avatar, etcetera. And I think there's something there about the wow factor, and historically, media was still expensive, expensive to create, oftentimes expensive to consume. Right? So if you can lower the barrier and the friction and dramatically sort of make it easier, faster, cheaper, more affordable, I think there's a lot of market to capture.
And you also see some stuff in the coding side, which is the AI for coding and lovable in both of the world. So the only thing I see the other thing I see is I've noticed this trend of, like, people hiring very few but very high elite talent. So instead of hiring twenty, fifty people that are pretty good or they're hiring, like, five people who are exceptionally good. Right? Almost founding engineer, navy seal types.
That just lets them move a lot faster, iterate faster, and without the communication overhead. So I think just having a really high bar for talent, lead team or founding team, and then being able to just iterate that very quickly and and move quickly.