{"id":2981,"date":"2014-10-26T16:44:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T21:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2014-10-26T16:44:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T21:44:11","slug":"market-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2014\/10\/26\/market-share","title":{"rendered":"Market share"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><em>What is the market share of BMW? Maybe 1 or 1.5%. But when one drives by, you either have one, or you wish you had one. Build products that people lust after; if you can do that, you don\u2019t have to worry about market share.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Paraphrasing Steve Jobs, via an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dJ5yAmo73-E\">episode<\/a> of This Week in Startups.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Market%20share&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2014%2F10%2F26%2Fmarket-share&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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