Business Building
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Business Building
“At both Viaweb and YC, every minute I spent thinking about competitors was, in retrospect, a minute wasted... It's exceptionally rare for startups to be killed by competitors — so rare that you can almost discount the possibility... Inexperienced founders usually give competitors more credit than they deserve. Whether you succeed depends far more
... See morehottest companies in Silicon Valley, famous for one thing: they made an extremely boring product extremely beloved. He speaks about how «technology makes it faster to build, but harder to care.» And how real quality can only be achieved by truly valuing craft, for its own sake. «This is what craft is about — the deliberate attention put into making... See more
tech makes it faster to build but harder to care
If you’re a founder struggling with prioritizing a roadmap and defining a strategy:
embrace the chaos of reality and not be over-reliant on meticulous, inflexible planning. Instead of waiting for the perfect plan, take action and be prepared to pivot swiftly as opportunities or changes in the landscape arise.
make decisions fast and be ready to
90% of Claude’s code is now written by AI, and this has completely transformed how they build products. The bottlenecks have shifted from engineering (writing code) to decision-making (what to build) and merge queues (getting code into production). This is happening faster than anyone expected—Mike thinks most companies will reach this point within
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I think we are trying to build a company that serves the people that use it rather than serves the company that we founded.
