The unpredictable positive feedback effect of being first, achieving meteorically rapid scale makes picking winners hard.

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Sales rose meteorically after some doctors started using it also in outpatient clinics in non-hospitalized patients.

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And (most importantly), the cost of DNA synthesis and sequencing is plummeting meteorically.

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But if the company continues to rise meteorically as it has in the recent past, the first trillion dollar company may not be so far along.

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