You should be less ambitious

If we're at the outset and too ambitious and visionary about the product we wanna build, we will probably miss product-market fit because we won't start at a small enough, humble enough place. Usually the starting point is embarrassingly small. I've had bigger success than I imagined I would have in my first two companies. And so I got to Tribe and I saw social networking and I saw how big the opportunity was, I tried to do everything with Tribe, but I was too ambitious. And so we failed. I was so humbled and I was in this abyss. By the time I got to Zynga, I did something that was embarrassingly small. To be 41, multi-time successful founder, and what did I do? I made a Facebook app, a poker game. People thought I had no dignity, but I'd say my ambition came down to 1,000-foot altitude, not 100,000-foot. And that was the key to that being successful. And it almost gives a new founder an advantage over a multi-time successful founder because we have too much rope to hang ourselves. It's too easy to raise money, recruit teams against a big vision before we've gotten to product-market fit. But the world doesn't care about your resume.