Sahil Lavingia says his company Summar took twelve years to reach product-market fit, which he defines as simply being cash-flow positive. He argues the phrase itself is a psy op by tech industry to obscure a basic truth: if customers pay more than vendor costs, you have fit. If not, you don't.
Summar took 12 years to get to real what I felt like was product market, undeniable product market fit in the sense that like just cash flow positive. By the way, I also think product market fit is like a psyop of the tech industry. Why do you need the word product market fit? Just say profitable. Just say cash flow positive. If you're cash flow positive, you have product market fit, you're profitable. Customers use your product, you know, pay you more than you paid your vendors. If you don't, you don't.
