A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders
00:53:50 · Sean McCarthy, Pablo Srugo
[00:53:50] S0: I think the biggest piece of advice is to be honest with yourself as a founder as well. It's very easy to convince ourselves that either the problem that we're solving is really, really mission critical. Even though it might not be, or that you get one customer telling you that it is like super important to your business. You just take that and run as a blanket statement for like that entire vertical. Because one customer told you that. I think you need to make sure you do enough diligence and be honest with yourself on a retro the feedback that you're getting. And I tell you that is like an important lesson because I've made those mistakes in blitzing our entire team based on one or two customers telling me some product feedback and going off the rails. And quickly learning like it was just those one or two customers. It was nobody else that needed that and so I think that that principle from the very earliest stages, like you're trying to raise a pre-seed round and just figure out what you're going to do. All the way through, even past where we are from an organization, you have to make sure you have a decent sample size and that you operate off data, and not gut checks. And that's been, for me, probably one of the most powerful lessons. And frankly, one that, you know, I still make the mistakes on today. [00:55:04] S2: Sean, thanks so much for jumping on the show, dude. It's been great. [00:55:07] S0: Thanks, Pablo. I appreciate you having me.
00:55:07 · Sean McCarthy, Pablo Srugo
[00:55:07] S0: Thanks, Pablo. I appreciate you having me. [00:55:08] S2: So picture this, it's months from now, years from now, and one of your founder friends. A really close founder friend of yours, guess what? Their startup went bankrupt, and it turns out if you had just shared the Product Market Fit show with them. They would have learned everything they needed to, to find Product Market Fit and to create a huge success. But instead, their startup has completely failed. You have blood on your hands. Don't let that happen. You don't want to live like that. It is terrible. So do what you need to do. Tell them about the show. Send it to them. Put it on WhatsApp. Put it on Slack. Put it where you need to put it. Just make sure they know about it and they check it out.