A speaker reflects on the moment a startup finds product-market fit and the chaos that follows. The shift from fighting for users to managing explosive growth changes everything about how you work and who you are.
Most of the startup is like, before you have product market fit, you feel like you're rolling the bulldog pill. You're begging people to use your product. You're like, you know, begging people to try it and give it a chance. And eventually, if you discover something that's really useful and differentiated, then people start to come to you and you feel like you can't make it fast enough, you can't keep the servers up, whatever that is for you. You feel like you're rolling the boulder downhill, you're just running after it. And I think that's the difference. Um, and you know, you can, I think it's really easy in Silicon Valley to cargo call all the things that successful founders do that aren't working on your product. You know, like, oh, I need to hire, like, executives or raise a lot of money. But those things are relevant. You know, they're downstream from having a product that everybody wants. Right. And they're, they're pretty much irrelevant and actually detrimental to you. Discovering a product, you know, something that works, that has product market fit oftentimes. But it's easy to get distracted by them. And I have in my career. So that was one, probably the most important lesson.
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