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← People do not use products but hire them to do jobs, and builders have to know what those jobs are.
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Read this korrent: People do not use products but hire them to do jobs, and builders have to know what those jobs are.
People do not use products but hire them to do jobs, and builders have to know what those jobs are.
Last stated 3 weeks ago
10 Sept 2026
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Robby Stein — holds since 2026-09-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Product builders should spend less time on features and technology and more on the people they build for. — tap to centre the map on it
Product builders should spend less time on features and technology and more on the people they build for.
Last stated 3 weeks ago
10 Sept 2026
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Robby Stein — holds since 2026-09-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: People don't need to know exactly what they're building before they start creating it. — tap to centre the map on it
People don't need to know exactly what they're building before they start creating it.
Last stated 3 weeks ago
14 Sept 2026
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Lenny Rachitsky — holds since 2026-09-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Someone who is not already product-first almost never becomes good at product afterwards. — tap to centre the map on it
Someone who is not already product-first almost never becomes good at product afterwards.
Last stated 4 months ago
9 Jun 2026
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Bill Gurley — holds since 2026-06-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The hard part of building a product in a month is working out what not to build. — tap to centre the map on it
The hard part of building a product in a month is working out what not to build.
Last stated 2 years ago
20 Aug 2024
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Pieter Levels — holds since 2024-08-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Giving people access to tools for building software does not make most of them software builders. — tap to centre the map on it
Giving people access to tools for building software does not make most of them software builders.
Last stated 6 months ago
20 Mar 2026
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Jason Fried — holds since 2026-03-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Tools such as agents can help do the job of product, but the job itself is solving customer problems and achieving business outcomes. — tap to centre the map on it
Tools such as agents can help do the job of product, but the job itself is solving customer problems and achieving business outcomes.
Last stated 3 weeks ago
10 Sept 2026
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Marty Cagan — holds since 2026-09-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Once non-designers can build products, a design team’s job becomes templates and design systems — otherwise the company ships Frankensteins. — tap to centre the map on it
Once non-designers can build products, a design team’s job becomes templates and design systems — otherwise the company ships Frankensteins.
Last stated 2 months ago
19 Jul 2026
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Elizabeth Stone — holds since 2026-07-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The job has always been to solve human problems, and software is not required for every human endeavour. — tap to centre the map on it
The job has always been to solve human problems, and software is not required for every human endeavour.
Last stated 4 months ago
3 Jun 2026
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Kelsey Hightower — holds since 2026-06-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A computational discovery platform does not make a biotech fast, because the thousand other steps of drug development are still the bottleneck. — tap to centre the map on it
A computational discovery platform does not make a biotech fast, because the thousand other steps of drug development are still the bottleneck.
Last stated 2 years ago
17 Sept 2024
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Alex Telford — holds since 2024-09-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A film's script and direction must be of a sufficient quality to support its complex plot. — tap to centre the map on it
A film's script and direction must be of a sufficient quality to support its complex plot.
Last stated 5 days ago
27 Sept 2026
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John Scalzi — holds since 2026-09-27 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A good idea often fails to spread not for lack of merit but because no convenient way exists to implement it. — tap to centre the map on it
A good idea often fails to spread not for lack of merit but because no convenient way exists to implement it.
Last stated 4 months ago
7 Jun 2026
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Scott Rao — holds since 2026-06-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: “Why now?” is the wrong question to make a founder answer — the honest answer can simply be that you started now. — tap to centre the map on it
“Why now?” is the wrong question to make a founder answer — the honest answer can simply be that you started now.
Last stated 2 months ago
28 Jul 2026
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Blake Scholl — holds since 2026-07-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A belief nobody else shares is a warning, and a belief everybody shares is also a warning; the right number of people who agree with you is small but not zero. — tap to centre the map on it
A belief nobody else shares is a warning, and a belief everybody shares is also a warning; the right number of people who agree with you is small but not zero.
Last stated 2 months ago
28 Jul 2026
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Sam Altman — holds since 2026-07-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A business can have market fit, real advantages, and sustained effort behind a hard product and still fail if it doesn't give customers a strong enough reason to switch from what they already use. — tap to centre the map on it
A business can have market fit, real advantages, and sustained effort behind a hard product and still fail if it doesn't give customers a strong enough reason to switch from what they already use.
Last stated 4 months ago
2 Jun 2026
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Justin Jackson — holds since 2026-06-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A blank chat box is lazy: it violates the first rule of a good user experience, that it is obvious what you can do. — tap to centre the map on it
A blank chat box is lazy: it violates the first rule of a good user experience, that it is obvious what you can do.
Last stated a year ago
12 May 2025
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Julie Zhuo — holds since 2025-05-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A board game conquers the world when chance and strategy are in balance in it. — tap to centre the map on it
A board game conquers the world when chance and strategy are in balance in it.
Last stated 10 months ago
12 Dec 2025
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Irving Finkel — holds since 2025-12-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A browser works better as a single window than as multiple separate windows. — tap to centre the map on it
A browser works better as a single window than as multiple separate windows.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
15 Sept 2026
CC
Chris Coyier — holds since 2026-09-15 — tap for who they are
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