Noah Weiss: belief

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…It's interesting how many consumer companies pivot to B2B because it turns out that's where the money ends up being. Yeah. I think the feedback to you get from our people willing to pay for the product that you're building is so much faster than can I build a large-scale consumer business and when they hope to have enough reach to then slap ads onto it. That's a much more of a try to hit a home run and hope it works out. But you don't really know if you're doing it along the way. Yeah. I think B2B is a easier to have a more incremental, successfully business than pure consumer. Okay. Speaking of Foursquare, Dennis Crowley was the CEO and founder, a very strong product-minded founder. I know you've worked with a number of very strong product-minded founders including Stewart Butterfield, Dennis, obviously we just talked about, maybe others. I'm curious what you've learned as a product leader working with very opinionated founders. I think this is interesting not just as a product leader working with very product-minded CEOs, but also as a first PM at a startup you're often put in this tough spot of just the founders just telling you what to do and you have to go build it versus having a lot of say in agency. I'm curious what you've learned about working and being successful in that position, which is often really hard.…

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