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Eric Siu recounts pitching a software deals site to his mentor 14 years ago. The mentor said it was a bad idea and the market was too small. The business succeeded anyway as the market grew.
Eric Siu recounts pitching a software deals site to his mentor 14 years ago. The mentor said it was a bad idea and the market was too small. The business succeeded anyway as the market grew.
14 years ago, I met with my mentor. I was like, hey, I'm going to start this deal site for software. And he's like, that's not going to work. And there's only a few software products. It's not that he was trying to hate on me. He was just like, I don't know if this is going to work. So go do it. Start right now and see if people will buy these things. And it was— it's been great. It's like, are you picking the right market? Got it. At the end of the day, and the market got so much bigger that we were just around and it's done well.
