What Arvid Kahl thinks about innovation
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Arvid Kahl has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsBut the quality of these systems isn't just in the code they write. It's also in the code I don't have to write. And maybe more importantly, their actual value is in the code I would never have written, or could never have written, or never would have wanted to write.
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Our readingIn iterative problem-solving, each failure has value because it rules out one way that doesn't work.
Their wordsFailure is a good thing because it teaches us another way of how it's not to be accomplished.
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