Tiger Buford warns founders not to get emotionally attached to their first product. Most startups discover their initial version is mis-priced, poorly fitted to the market, or built with the wrong tools, making it a false start that wastes resources instead of enabling iteration.
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Have you ever heard the phrase worth more dead than alive? The theme we were talking about is not so much false starts with startup, but it's a false start with your first generation product. So, you know, a lot of people spend so much emotional energy on getting the first product to market that they never iterate it and they go to the market and it's the wrong price. I mean, you know this, Marc, You've sold so much stuff. It's the wrong price. It doesn't quite fit. It's the instruments are terrible. Something. It's the first generation is never going to work well.
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Yeah. And the, the, the, what the phrase I always used to use was, I would tell people, I said, don't never fall in love with the horse. Remember that all you are is a jockey, and your job is to win the race.