> rather trying to spend precious time on meeting with people to expand my network. He's not saying that. He's saying if you can't network in your domain or fi

> rather trying to spend precious time on meeting with people to expand my network. He's not saying that. He's saying if you can't network in your domain or find people that do, it will be extremely difficult to scale a business. Or in more "hacker terms", get close to your customer and hustle. I know more than a handful of very successful software founders who have made a ton of money scaling software businesses with dogshit technology, simply because they had a strong network in their domain. I think this one of the few instance Marc actually concedes that it's not simply about "software eating the world". Professional networks matter.