> This leads me to believe that most people either get lucky and then apply a framework in retrospect to justify their luck Bingo. It's much easier to get a ne

> This leads me to believe that most people either get lucky and then apply a framework in retrospect to justify their luck Bingo. It's much easier to get a new product started when there is little or no competition. Clients can be tolerating (like early days of Crypto or now the early days of AI). But once a market is mature, clients are very unlikely to accept your service (even for free!), if it seems risky let alone incomplete. > or they simply don't tell the whole truth. You hit another nail. No one is going to tell you what dark/grey/shady actions they took to get where they are. YC call it "naughty" founders. > but maybe the truth is that it does not take 7 months, but 7 years? Another nail. Bare some exceptions, most businesses take years to build. A product will take years of polishing to become mature enough to be used.