This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube video titled "Jessica Mah: Launching Too Early" containing a conversation from December 6, 2011, where Jessica Mah discusses the challenges and lessons learned from launching a product too early during her Y Combinator batch, emphasizing the pressure from peers and investors.
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Yeah, we launched really early. Like, we wanted to be the first company out of our Y Combinator batch to launch on TechCrunch because we feel good about ourselves, and we did, and it felt great, but the product was just not there yet. Like, people would sign up and they'd complain about bugs and problems and they'd fall off. And I wish we had waited longer.
Say that last part again.
I wish we waited longer to launch and we didn't have to publicly launch to get user feedback.
I thought that's what you're supposed to do.
We could have just talked to our friends and early customers and had them use the product and just ace that for a longer period of time.
But you wouldn't have been part of the cool club.
You wouldn't have been, but I'd rather not lose your money than be cool.
That's an interesting lesson, isn't it? And could anybody have convinced you of that early on? Honestly.
Possibly. But I felt like there was just a lot of peer pressure to do otherwise.
I think so.
Like, when you're surrounded by a bunch of other companies who are rushing to launch and your investors really want you to launch, you're just going to do it.
Cool. Interesting.
So you just have to figure out, like, what you want to do. And even if your investors tell you to do otherwise, you have to decide what's right for you.
