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> I’ve never done that before but how hard could it be Funny, the founders of a lot of successful startups usually tell an anecdote similar to this. They will
by mrtksn 2y ago
> I’ve never done that before but how hard could it be
Funny, the founders of a lot of successful startups usually tell an anecdote similar to this. They will often undertake a challenge, naively thinking that it’s easy only to find out how colossal actually is. Then this becomes their moat or differentiator.
- kaba0 2y agoSounds like survivorship bias.
- mrtksn 2y agoHow so? Moat by definition is something hard to do, its only normal for many to fail trying. Naiveté can be a factor which would amplify number of people trying.
- Wololooo 2y ago"We did it not because it was easy, but because we thought it was going to be easy."
- intended 2y agoI mean yes ? In that Startups mostly fail, so the ones that survive are survivors ? I’m not sure who has the bias in this case. The startup ? The parent comment ?