building a company is largely the act of managing your own emotional state so the field around you remains coherent enough for other ppl to do their best work inside it.
basically founders set the emotional physics of the org. panic compounds. but clarity compounds too.
We all hoped for a unified agent each that could do all our work across various platforms. Instead, every product just has its own shit version of Siri.
This is a small product with a very big idea inside it. Software usage is becoming part of your professional identity.
Not “I know HubSpot.”
“I have used HubSpot for years, across this many features, at this level of depth, and can verify it.”
That is a much stronger signal than a badge from a course.
a YC founder i'm working with was worried because one customer had already built a simple version of his product in-house.
i told him that's not a bad sign, and it's actually the best proof point he has.
if a company is spending expensive engineering time on the problem you're solving, that validates a bunch of things at once:
- the pain is very real
- other vendors are not good enough
- many companies likely have the same pain too
@BBHerodotus Hard to retain so much. Better be in an environment where you have to apply those learnings quickly.
This is why business leaders read a lot. They have areas to apply their learning to, like all the time.
Opinions are cheap because there is no longer any cost to having one. You can be loud without being right, certain without being experienced, and critical without being accountable. What’s rare now is an opinion that has been earned through contact with reality.
@TheChowdhary The challenge is stitching APIs of multiple tools in one place, which is hard to maintain and always needs an engineer on standby to fix.
CRMs are much more stable.