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"Literally everyone knows that those things don't matter for super early stage startups." If literally everyone knows that then I don't need to be commenting,
by tomhoward 5y ago
"Literally everyone knows that those things don't matter for super early stage startups."
If literally everyone knows that then I don't need to be commenting, as my replies in this subthread are to someone insisting that balance sheets matter even before a company has a working product. Clearly they don't.
It seems the people "reacting" are imagining some deeper intention or elaborate plot or some complicated character weakness behind it all.
I just see him repeating what he's said for years: for early stage companies, you should just focus on making something people want.
- davidivadavid 5y agoYes, the "character weakness" is a penchant for midwit /r/iamverysmart takes that are well below people's usual expectations. Surely we can agree the reaction is overblown, but as someone said, this is definitely eyeroll material.
- tomhoward 5y agoI think perhaps the thing with PG is that people think the advice/wisdom he shares should be far more profound and complicated than it is. As someone who has frequently made the mistake of overcomplicating things, I don't see anything wrong with repeatedly telling early stage founders, in all kinds of different ways, to just focus on building a product that people want.