MONEY MAKES MONEY.
“For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them” (Matthew 25:29).
Albert Einstein made the same observation when he stated that compound interest was “the eighth wonder of the world,” “the greatest mathematical discovery of all time,” or even “the most powerful force in the universe.” Whichever version you prefer, you can’t miss his message: never underestimate exponential growth. There’s no evidence that Einstein ever said any of those things—the quotations are all apocryphal. But this very misattribution reinforces the message: having invested the principal of a lifetime’s brilliance, Einstein continues to earn interest on it from beyond the grave by receiving credit for things he never said.
Most sayings are forgotten. At the other extreme, a select few people like Einstein and Shakespeare are constantly quoted and ventriloquized. We shouldn’t be surprised since small minorities often achieve disproportionate results.
In 1906, economist Vilfredo Pareto discovered what became the “Pareto principle,” or the 80-20 rule, when he noticed that 20% of the people owned 80% of the land in Italy—a phenomenon that he found just as natural as the fact that 20% of the peapods in his garden produced 80% of the peas. This extraordinarily stark pattern, in which a tiny few radically outstrip all rivals, surrounds us everywhere in the natural and social world.
There is one thing above all that is the most important factor to a business: money. Without money, a business hasn’t got much at all.
Money may not be the motivating factor behind every single decision that a business makes, but it certainly has a huge place of importance in business. Simply put, a business can’t do anything and won’t amount to much at all without money. That’s the bottom line – and that is why money is almost always going to be the be-all and end-all of business. It’s like your own finances, if you’ve no money, you can borrow some, take out a loan or use a credit card – but if you continue to build up debt in this form, it will become overwhelming, and creditors will chase you.
The most destructive earthquakes are many times more potent than all more minor earthquakes combined. The biggest cities dwarf all mere towns put together. And monopoly businesses capture more value than millions of undifferentiated competitors. Whatever Einstein did or didn’t say,” the power-law—so named because exponential equations describe severely unequal distributions—is the law of the universe. It defines our surroundings so entirely that we usually don’t even see it.
LESSON LEARNT—
This article shows how the power law becomes visible when you follow the money: in venture capital, •where investors try to profit from exponential growth in early-stage companies, a few companies attain exponentially more excellent value than all others.
Most businesses never need to deal with venture capital, but everyone needs to know exactly one thing that even venture capitalists struggle to understand: we don’t live in an ordinary world; we live under a power law.
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