Speaker unverified: evaluation

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…The revenue and profit aspect of the stories you were telling, was that super key? Because I can imagine, you’re trying to find like, yeah, he’s talking all these games about how great it is, is it actually working? That feels like almost this estimate before Zillow. It’s like, hey, this house looks good. But what’s it worth? How important was that? It’s extremely important. If I could write a startup book, I would call it Problems First. Where the first thing you want to do is you want to figure out, what are the problems that your potential customers have so you don’t build some random product that doesn’t solve their pain points. When I was reading all these comments on Hacker News, I was trying to find a business idea. I didn’t want to read comments from people who didn’t have proof that their business idea worked. Somebody said, oh, I’ve got this great company. I’m working on it, it’s really great. Does this and this and this. They don’t share the revenue numbers. For all I know, they’re making $5 a month and it’s not that great. I can tell everybody else in the comments had kind of the same problem. They’re like, hey, we only want to upload the stories that share the revenue numbers, we only want to upload the stories that have inspirational things that we can grasp on to to know this person is legit. And to have a close cycle that this advice worked. Like this advice is trustable.…

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