This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube video titled "Focus On Yourself, Not Your Competition" created on October 17, 2018. It features a monologue discussing the importance of focusing on one's own strengths and journey rather than being overly concerned with competition, especially in a business context.
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Had I known there were 80 other people working on the idea, what would I have done? And I think that was probably the part where my confidence from the first time played better in the second time. The first time I was hyper focused on competition and actually made a lot of mistakes by adding things in response to competition. Because even in the first journey, in the kaboodle journey, we had 60, 70 people who jumped in. And there's a lot of PR that happens depending upon your funding levels, who's starting it. And you get very responsive to that. So you feel like, oh my God, this person is rising. I have to respond to it. Yahoo is really a product. Google's really. So in the second journey, what I realized that most of my mistakes in the first journey came from paying too much attention to the outside. So one of the sort of byproducts of this value, embrace your weirdness, is also around that if you look at great journeys and sort of great sort of evolution, re evolution, you have to focus on your own strengths. And so I don't think it would have impacted me, but it didn't impact me. In fact, later on, as competitive products have come, they were pressured from investors even for the team. Let's morph in this direction or add that things. And I have been sort of very focused and so is my team, especially the core team, to focus on our journey. And so I would say especially in a competitive environment, instead of looking around, if you sort of figure out who you are and pursue that journey. The thing is there's so much out there that it isn't about. It isn't a zero sum game, and particularly in the business we are in, it's an infinite tam. It isn't a zero sum game. So by sort of focusing on your own value, you can create a journey of success which you won't by constantly looking around. Which is not to say you shouldn't pay attention to great things that are happening around you. You shouldn't pay attention to the great innovation that's happening around you. But instead of being scared about it, figure out your strengths rather than chasing it.
