Not seeking honest feedback from the people who know you is the largest and least-taken opportunity for self-improvement, and it usually has to be anonymous to be honest.

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• Reaching product-market fit requires deliberately not acting on the feedback of many of your early users, at the same time as listening intensely. RVRahul Vohra23 Mar 2025similar wording
• You cannot get real feedback on a new consumer product before shipping the whole thing; feedback starts when somebody spends their own money on it. TFTony Fadell7 Jun 2026similar wording
• Ignore both the users who love your product and the ones who are indifferent to it; the only feedback that raises product-market fit comes from the somewhat disappointed. RVRahul Vohra23 Mar 2025similar wording
• You have to talk to customers and share your ideas as early and as often as possible, even though you need not take their advice. ESEvan Spiegel26 Apr 2026similar wording
• Feedback should be a daily practice rather than a twice-yearly review, because the team that improves one percent a week overtakes the team that improves one percent a month. JZJulie Zhuo21 Sept 2025similar wording

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