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Listening to customers is invaluable, but you should not build the thing they asked you for.

Drawn from what Evan Spiegel and Colin Percival said

What these subjects mean

empathy Feeling what others feel: whether it makes better makers, leaders and people, or is a poor guide that should give way to compassion.

design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

What they actually said

  1. Evan Spiegel Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc. All of those insights that we you know, received just from listening to folks made a huge difference in the product design process, but we didn't build exactly what they asked for. We we empathized and then you know, came up with something new. How to win when software is not a moat | Evan Spiegel (Snapchat CEO)youtube.com · 26 Apr 2026 · 0:28:13 into the videoAll 22 korrents from this video
    All of those insights that we you know, received just from listening to folks made a huge difference in the product design process, but we didn't build exactly what they asked for. We we empathized and then you know, came up with something new.
  2. Colin Percival FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer Customer Obsession is great, but I often see Amazonians taking this too simplistically: "Start with the customer" doesn't have to mean "ask customers what they want and then give them faster horses". Thoughts on (Amazonian) Leadershipdaemonology.net · 1 Sept 2025All 3 korrents from this piece
    Customer Obsession is great, but I often see Amazonians taking this too simplistically: "Start with the customer" doesn't have to mean "ask customers what they want and then give them faster horses".

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