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You missed the point of the essay. a scalable product company If you're building a scalable product company your first customers are your best evangelists. Th
by onion2k 1y ago
You missed the point of the essay.
a scalable product company
If you're building a scalable product company your first customers are your best evangelists. They're the ones you need to cultivate and nurture to take your message to a wide audience. Wider than you can connect with without them on side. That's why you have to do things at the start like emailing and talking with them personally. You can't do that when you have 1,000 customers, but you need to do that when you have 3.
- bmadduma 1y agoSorry forgot to mention B2B AI company. You need be mindful not built everything customers ask you to build. I'm talking about that, email, talking to customers I have no problem with that.
- wmf 1y agoYou need be mindful not built everything customers ask you to build. Did PG say to do that?
- bmadduma 1y agoI didn't mean hurt your master, I did not mention your masters name.
- robocat 1y agoPlease don't be rudely facetious. You are on YC and appear to be disagreeing with PG's "Do Things that Don't Scale" article: https://paulgraham.com/ds.html https://paulgraham.com/ds.html so people jump to conclusions even if you don't.
- bmadduma 1y agoWhat is rude? Did I mentioned anything bad here, I expressed my point of view, so other founders can either take it or not. I'm describing a real problem in enterprise AI. If pointing that out makes me "against the cult," so be it. I'd rather share what I learned the hard way than repeat talking points that don't apply to my context.