Ben Horowitz
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Yeah, I mean, it's a very, very hard problem.
If you can do it, you can found a company, you can create something.
It's a very difficult thing to get to a right product, right time.
You have to understand a lot about the world.
You have to understand a lot about the technological landscape.
You've got to understand a lot about the technology that you have.
And I'm not saying it's easy, but I'm saying that's what it's always been.
And like the problem with a product is kind of the technology, right?
Like what's technologically possible.
You know, if you've already got one in market, it's like, what do the customers of that want?
It's what does the market want?
You know, what is the competition doing?
There's a lot of things that go into, like, is this a product that's going to work?
And I think you need somebody who's responsible, accountable to all of that.
Now, you know, maybe you've got, like, a product architect who's already good enough to do that or these kinds of things.
So, like, I don't think the title matters, but that thing matters.
Well, that's why I'm not, like, a founder now.
Like, you're asking me.
I'm, like, running a venture capital firm.
Like there's so many.