Dolly Parton wrote 3,000+ songs: the case for building the same product 100 times
soleio · x · 2026-09-25
Dolly Parton wrote over 3,000 songs across 80 years (about 4,200 weeks). Erik Torenberg draws the startup lesson: fear not the person who builds 100 products, but the one who builds the same product 100 times — iteration on one direction compounds advantage.
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