What Steve Coast thinks about startups

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Founder of OpenStreetMap, the collaborative map of the world; later worked on mapping at Microsoft and Telenav.

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1. 6 Jun 2022

   Our readingTalking to customers about your product risks discovering that you are wrong.

   Their wordsThe problem with talking to the customer for anything you are making is that you might be wrong.

   ↗In Defense of OpenStreetMap's Data Modelstevecoast.com 1st of 2 in this piece