5harathFounding Growth Lead, Willow Voice

Solving Problems for Yourself...Or Not?

4 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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A founder explains why they build products they personally want rather than chasing big markets, even when it means entering hard industries like media. They learned that hands-on trial and error beats theoretical planning when you don't know what you're doing.

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You know what I mean? Like, I don't, I'm not here to say, I don't know what the best way is to do things. All I know is anytime I've tried to do that, I come up with the dumbest ideas. And so, you know, I guess the downside of just solving problems for yourself is like, maybe it's actually like a small market, you know, or maybe it's like a hard business that you might get in. Like media's a hard business, right? So like, I didn't set out to be like, what's the most amazing business I could start and then do that? I just set out to like, I wanna do the thing that I, feel like doing for whatever combination of reasons, right? And then you learn like, oh, maybe it's kind of a hard business. Maybe I like don't feel like having to have an opinion every week on tech things. Like you, you start to run into those things, but it's hard to know before you start. And I feel like learning by doing and then just, and like touching the hot plate and kind of like, it's, that's how you like really learn. If you're coming at it from this like abstract