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Build on a customer problem somebody viscerally feels and would pay to fix, because it is very easy to imagine one that nobody does.
Drawn from what Patrick Collison said
Subjectstartups
What Patrick Collison actually said
- Patrick Collison Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute
something we learned from YC uh was that the importance of focusing on very concrete easy to explain customer problems. Like it's it's very easy to to hallucinate or to you know imagine some customer problem that's not actually something viscerally felt by a person who would pay money.
Where this was said
Watch from 10:15 plays here↗Patrick Collison: Is AI Breaking the Lean Startup Playbook?youtube.com
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