"The job of a product leader is to ensure that the core idea, insight and user value is not lost as a product comes to market and moves through myriad people and opinions."

the future belongs to scrappy generalists with great taste

This doesn't work because a "product launch" isn't what it was 10 years ago anymore Back then you'd launch on Product Hunt and you'd get thousands or tens of thousands of users overnight and journalists would pick it up after A lot has changed since then Firstly, nobody cares

Anitché hein

one of the best sales advice we got back in YC was the "ikea effect": if you are in the middle of a demo, never just open your laptop and show a generic feature dump. before you show anything, ask this: "if you were in my shoes, what would this platform need to show you to

“A hacker who has learned what to make, and not just how to make, is extraordinarily powerful.” paulgraham.com/bronze.html

Tout est mentale

Being a writer means having a story you want everyone in the world to read, except anyone who knows you

This is what great PM looks like. User requests feature. Bad PM says “good idea, added to backlog.” Great PM asks: who actually has this problem? 0.00072% of DAU. That’s the entire product management discipline in one data point. The feature request sounds reasonable. The user

Just do things…

J’aime les amitiés où ton gars se pointe chez toi sans rien dire et se sert dans ton frigo. Celles où, quand tu es malade, il prend place à tes côtés sans même te demander. Des amitiés sans protocole, sans mise en scène. Celles qui n’ont pas besoin de mots, parce que la confiance

By popular demand, some tips for creating your own personal curriculum 😊

Someone associated with a brand selling cookies, for example, can't publicly attack things that dumb people like. Dumb people buy lots of cookies. But it's safe for me to. If I offend dumb people and they don't apply to YC, that's actually good for YC.

With the entry barrier to building almost gone, the hardest thing for builders today is having the discipline and patience not to build too many things too fast.

Joke aside these models need to slow down