Jason M. LemkinCEO, SaaStr · Co-Founder of SaaStr AI, SaaStr Fund, Adobe Sign

Unleash Your Potential and Soar Above the Big Players with Tech Innovation!

19 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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Short motivational segment from a November 19, 2023 YouTube video by Jason M. Lemkin encouraging entrepreneurs to use recent technological advances to outmaneuver larger companies. The speaker contrasts slow, resource-heavy incumbents (“driving aircraft carriers”) with agile startups (“flying an F15 fighter”), arguing now is an ideal time to compete because of major technological progress and historical momentum.

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And I just want you to remember that, because entrepreneurship is hard and it's so hard to think about how can we compete with the billion dollar marketing budgets, with the 10,000 employees, with the billboards, with the 20 years of engineering development. But you have to remember that those people are driving aircraft carriers that take so much energy just to turn it 5 degrees. And you are flying an F15 fighter. And there couldn't be a better time to do that than now with arguably the biggest technology advancement of our lifetime. History is on your side.