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There is something I've been repeating to people younger than myself lately (and I'm only in my early 30s): don't be a contrarian in your career. The so-called
by NhanH 4y ago
There is something I've been repeating to people younger than myself lately (and I'm only in my early 30s): don't be a contrarian in your career. The so-called mainstream is mainstream because it works.
Anyway, why isn't the main lesson "not doing a travel business in the middle of a pandemic where we are trying to implement world-wide lockdown for the first time in human history" ?
- gizmo 4y agoBecause the business would also have failed if he had started it at any other point in time? This is a simple case of "more money than sense". Even the lessons he learned strike me as wrong. The lessons read as insight porn, the kind of stuff you use to get subscribers to a newsletter. It's not about having too few or too many features. Nor is it about proving product/market fit. The guy didn't have the technical skills or the hustle to bootstrap a marketplace. Does he even know two-sided marketplaces get bootstrapped with some kind of cheating/trickery/naughtiness? From youtube to linkedin to reddit to quora to airbnb to tinder. They all "cheated" in a specific way that worked for them. And that's no coincidence, because nobody wants to use a social or networked app without other people on it.