On: Vayable Guides Travelers Off the Beaten Path

[waitwhat]

Vayable launched with 70 guides in April 2011 [...] Since then, the company's been growing at a rate of 30 percent each week.

30% growth every week for 18 months would mean total growth by nearly a factor of a trillion. This doesn't seem likely.

[anateus → waitwhat]

I think it's more likely that Vayable just "grew at the same rate", where "rate" should really be "amount".

30% of 70 is 21 and April 2011 is about 86 weeks ago. 21*86 = 1806, so a rough projection of 1876 guides. The vayable website promises "2000+ tours", which with roughly that amount of guides with that projection actually makes sense :)

[aptwebapps → waitwhat]

s/trillion/billion/ but, yeah, doesn't seem likely.