or “how many years to $100M”. The graph and table below show for a consistent top, median, or bottom quartile company (at the cutoff points) how long it takes to grow from $1M to $100M.

A company that grows consistently, just at the top quartile cutoff growth rate, takes six years to get to a $100M run rate, a median performer takes eight years, and a bottom quartile performer does not yet get there in ten years. This is a calculation with all sorts of survivorship bias problems, because the slow growth companies tend to get acquired and not make it all the way to $100M, but the analysis is roughly right.

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