What Rob Snyder thinks about ideas vs execution
Author of The Power of Pull and writer of the newsletter The Physics of Startups; has advised more than 50 startups on growing from zero to $1 million in revenue.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Rob Snyder has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsyou come up with the perfect plan based on that, that doesn't survive the first touch with reality, with actual potential customers who are trying to do things. Like, you just waste a lot of cycles and it gives this like illusion of knowledge, the feeling of knowledge, the feeling of having a plan, and prevents you from seeing how things actually work.
↗Debugging your product-market fit with Rob Snyder (author of Power of Pull)youtube.com 7th of 7 in this recording
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Their wordswhat we need to do is actually quite simple. And it is exceptionally difficult to do. And so what I observe is like, we create a lot of useless work to avoid doing the simple hard things.
↗The reward is harder work (life after PMF)youtube.com 1st of 4 in this recording