# Bottlenecks
A tight definition of bottlenecks that I like:
**Bottlenecks** are the problems/capabilities, that if solved/created, would enable many other people and organizations to move forward on the <technology, problem, goal> you care about.
In general, we want to identify bottlenecks because
So we care about *actionable* and/or *unintuitive* bottlenecks to *important things*.
We want
### What makes something a bottleneck?
- It’s a “rate limiter”
[[Funding unlocked might be a good way to measure the ROI on addressing bottlenecks]]
### Related
- [[What are the different kinds of bottlenecks?]]
- [[List of spicy bottlenecks]]
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