A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders
00:44:10 · George, Pablo Srugo
[00:44:10] S0: I wouldn't optimize for like a large number. I mean, I I feel a tremendous amount of pressure to to deliver based on the numbers that were given, and and and we were given this mic deployed effectively. And so, like, having to just sit there is not it. [00:44:21] S1: I think the only counter to that today, especially with something like what you're doing, but I've seen a lot of companies like this, I'm finding, especially if you have product market fit today, you're also in a very competitive dynamic. Like, you're rarely the only one, especially if you're the app layer. And I don't know that if you have 25 and they have 20, it means you win, it doesn't. But frankly, if you have 25 and they've got 10, it does give you an extra edge. You have more events, more go to market, more everything. Right? [00:44:45] S0: Yes. Agreed. Spot on. Agreed. It helps with everything. Also, we talked about this earlier, but like great people are expensive because of the labs, because there's so much money and so there's a lot of money, there's a big amount of money chasing a finite pool of people and so salary is a bit up, you need the cash. [00:45:01] S1: So did you run a full process? Did you mean like 5,100 VCs or how fast was that? [00:45:06] S0: Yeah. I 50 VCs in like two weeks, try to compress it, stop coding, stop selling, just like super aggressive, try to do as much as I can in as little time as I can so I can get back to work. And I found that if you compress it,
00:45:06 · George, Pablo Srugo, S2
[00:45:06] S0: Yeah. I 50 VCs in like two weeks, try to compress it, stop coding, stop selling, just like super aggressive, try to do as much as I can in as little time as I can so I can get back to work. And I found that if you compress it, [00:45:23] S1: it helps. Listen, George, thanks so much for for jumping on the show, man. This has this has been great. I think we covered a lot. I think we delivered a lot of value for founders, so thanks for for sharing all that with us. [00:45:33] S0: Of course. No. Thanks for having me. Thank you, Pablo. [00:45:35] S2: You remember, like, the first person who told you about Bitcoin? The first person who told you about Uber? You want to be that person because being first is cool. So be a cool person and tell your founder friends. Send it to them on WhatsApp. Put it in a [00:45:51] S1: WhatsApp group. Put it on [00:45:53] S2: a Slack channel. Let people know about the show. Let people know about this episode. Don't let somebody else beat you to the punch and share it with your founder friends first. Remember what Ricky Bobby said, if you [00:46:03] S1: ain't [00:46:03] S2: first, you're last.