It is very easy, even for good founders to fall into the trap of prioritizing for these metrics. If you find these creeping into your task list, just ask yourself. Is this directly on my path to revenue growth? Is this my biggest blocker? To illustrate what a laser focus on growth looks like, I dug up some examples. Here's a side-by-side comparison of DoorDash on demo day and my own startup, Rickshaw,. which was also a delivery platform. We went through what I see right after DoorDash did and DoorDash eventually acquired Rickshaw in 2017.