Ben Horowitz
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And so you better have no choice because any choice is better than that choice, I would say.
I think that
Look, if something changes, you made some set of assumptions when you started.
Some set of those are always wrong.
So you're always a little bit pivoting.
Nobody goes, oh, I'm going to do this, and then they go build it, and it's exactly as they laid out.
That never happens that way.
So you're going to change the idea as you go, but you're kind of like, okay, what did I think at the beginning?
What did I learn?
What's the delta?
Does that mean this whole thing is unviable, or I have to make some adjustments?
That's always a question that you're asking yourself, but I don't think there's
any kind of like miracle idea that you have that goes, okay, time to pivot.
Like I've checked these 17 boxes and now I'm fucked, so I'm going that way.
Like that's not really the way it works in reality.
Yeah, everybody is going through the idea maze.
There are no ideas.
There's only the idea maze.
And, you know, you're going to run into a wall in the market.
You're going to run into a wall with competition.