This is a YouTube video titled "Why Most Dev Tool Startups Fail | Agentic" containing a discussion between two speakers about the common pitfalls founders face, particularly the reluctance to engage with customers and validate their product ideas. The conversation focuses on the importance of customer validation in the development process. The speakers are not identified as George Bandarian.
Why do you think so many founders still don't go talk to customers and Instead will spend six months, 12 months just building the solution and really focused on product falling in love with the solution as opposed to falling in love with the customer and the customer's problem.
I think it's a handful of things. A, it's scary. B, some people get wrapped up in the tech. They think, I can build this cool thing that's difficult to make, and they want to build it and accomplish it. If you don't think about people want it. And third, sometimes people get so ingrained into what they're building that they're afraid to think that people don't want it. They think that, like what they're building, they must know the customer, especially in the dev tool space. Founders and engineers will say, like, I don't need to validate because I am the validation. That is catastrophic. The worst thing you can do is not talk to your customers and not validate as you're building. It is vitally important to talk to your customers, regardless if you're the customer or not, or if you're afraid to talk to them or you're afraid to hear that it's not a good product. You have to.
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