Charlie Warren
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first heard Jun 2026
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That changes pretty much everything around building an actual product.
First, you need to apply an operations mindset.
Find the bottlenecks and build for the bottlenecks.
Throughput and cycle time are now product metrics.
Track them like you would daily active users.
Variance is the existential problem here.
By variance, I mean non-uniform outputs from your actual service.
Customers will fire you for variance faster than they will fire you for being a bit slower or a bit more expensive than the incumbents.
They need to trust the output.
Inconsistency destroys trust, which causes churn.
Thirdly, humans in the loop should scale non-linearly.
If revenue scale is just in line with the number of humans you add,
you'll have major problems.
The humans in the loop also need to enjoy the software.
They are your users.
A general point, it's okay to do things that don't scale at the very beginning, but eventually you really do need to scale.
Automating the process is the product.
Okay, sales and customer success.
The biggest challenge facing founders here is what I'll call the early demand trap.
It's easy to sign up a lot of pilot customers when you're just starting out and have nothing,
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