Price's Law (1963, Derek de Solla Price) states that the square root of the number of people in a domain produces 50% of the work — sharper than the vague 80/20 Pareto because it gives an exact number. 100 employees → 10 produce half the output. 11M Spotify artists → 3,300 earn half the streams. 100 billion Milky Way stars → just 316,000 (0.0003%) produce half the luminosity. Anywhere skill, consistency, opportunity, and luck compound in the same direction, an exponential distribution emerges. The math is operational: if you have 1,000 customers, you have ~32 who drive half your revenue — and the optimization target is specific, not decorative.
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