I just happened to revisit this old thread here:
http://www.allposterforum.com/index.php?topic=4127.0I started it on 4/17/12, which was exactly four years to the day that I left eBay.
Thierry (eatbrie) replied: "CONGRATS BRUCE!!! Here's to $5 mil by 2014"
This seemed VERY unlikely at the time, since we had annual sales of $3.5 million the year prior to Thierry making his post. and even after a great 2012, we "only" had $4 million in sales for 2013.
But with Thierry's magic working for us, our 2013 sales came in at $5,133,181.00, so we ended 2013 at over $5 million, exactly as Thierry had predicted.
Since that time, we have averaged $5 million a year each of the next three years.
What will 2017 hold? Ask Thierry!