Lenny Rachitsky: preference

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…It's too easy to raise money and recruit teams against a big vision before we've gotten to product market fit, but the world doesn't care about your resume. That's the good news for everyone watching. Everyone has the same chance and in a lot of ways if you're in a more humble place, you have a better opportunity. So the paradox is the more ambitious you are that the more humble you should be in the smaller place you should be willing to start. One of your insights along these lines is that this is your advantage as a startup is to be less ambitious because a Zuck needs to go really big because the revenue is already so high. Anything they take on needs to be many billion-dollar business opportunity. And as a startup, you don't need to do that. And this is how you end up discovering some of the biggest ideas in the end. Being willing to pursue these little threads when they're flaky, when they're not a business, when they're so much earlier, and so many of the successful companies today started there.…

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