Reid Hoffman
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Which low-cost things can you do, talking to someone, taking a paper ad, doing other things, can I do to de-risk this? And then at the end of the day, you make the risk bet. Now, some of the red teaming thought is, well, if I'm wrong on this decision, what are my plans B? How do I recover? If I go, ooh, this one, we're just dead. Not, oh, it's painful. We're dead if it doesn't work.
Which low-cost things can you do, talking to someone, taking a paper ad, doing other things, can I do to de-risk this? And then at the end of the day, you make the risk bet. Now, some of the red teaming thought is, well, if I'm wrong on this decision, what are my plans B? How do I recover? If I go, ooh, this one, we're just dead. Not, oh, it's painful. We're dead if it doesn't work.
Oh, okay, well, let's invest a little bit more on the risk decision if we can. But by the way, part of what startups do is you're making the bet. If you're not making the bet, you're ultimately going to fail.
Oh, okay, well, let's invest a little bit more on the risk decision if we can. But by the way, part of what startups do is you're making the bet. If you're not making the bet, you're ultimately going to fail.
Oh, okay, well, let's invest a little bit more on the risk decision if we can. But by the way, part of what startups do is you're making the bet. If you're not making the bet, you're ultimately going to fail.
Oh, okay, well, let's invest a little bit more on the risk decision if we can. But by the way, part of what startups do is you're making the bet. If you're not making the bet, you're ultimately going to fail.
Oh, okay, well, let's invest a little bit more on the risk decision if we can. But by the way, part of what startups do is you're making the bet. If you're not making the bet, you're ultimately going to fail.
Well, that's what I talked about a little bit already with Socialite, which is, look, there's the number of people who are product geniuses that go, oh, when I pull back the curtains, everyone's going to go, ooh, la la, you are perfect. That's less than 1% of entrepreneurs and product people. And yet everyone thinks they are.
Well, that's what I talked about a little bit already with Socialite, which is, look, there's the number of people who are product geniuses that go, oh, when I pull back the curtains, everyone's going to go, ooh, la la, you are perfect. That's less than 1% of entrepreneurs and product people. And yet everyone thinks they are.
Well, that's what I talked about a little bit already with Socialite, which is, look, there's the number of people who are product geniuses that go, oh, when I pull back the curtains, everyone's going to go, ooh, la la, you are perfect. That's less than 1% of entrepreneurs and product people. And yet everyone thinks they are.
Well, that's what I talked about a little bit already with Socialite, which is, look, there's the number of people who are product geniuses that go, oh, when I pull back the curtains, everyone's going to go, ooh, la la, you are perfect. That's less than 1% of entrepreneurs and product people. And yet everyone thinks they are.
Well, that's what I talked about a little bit already with Socialite, which is, look, there's the number of people who are product geniuses that go, oh, when I pull back the curtains, everyone's going to go, ooh, la la, you are perfect. That's less than 1% of entrepreneurs and product people. And yet everyone thinks they are.
And it obviously should be a good product person, otherwise you shouldn't be doing the product side of entrepreneurship, doing something else. But the right thing is, how do you learn from your customers?
And it obviously should be a good product person, otherwise you shouldn't be doing the product side of entrepreneurship, doing something else. But the right thing is, how do you learn from your customers?
And it obviously should be a good product person, otherwise you shouldn't be doing the product side of entrepreneurship, doing something else. But the right thing is, how do you learn from your customers?
And it obviously should be a good product person, otherwise you shouldn't be doing the product side of entrepreneurship, doing something else. But the right thing is, how do you learn from your customers?
And it obviously should be a good product person, otherwise you shouldn't be doing the product side of entrepreneurship, doing something else. But the right thing is, how do you learn from your customers?
How do you go, which things, and that's part of the reason why minimum viable product, product market fit, all of these things, you know, kind of testing your hypotheses, using other data as a way of doing it, because if it's speed to market and speed to learning.
How do you go, which things, and that's part of the reason why minimum viable product, product market fit, all of these things, you know, kind of testing your hypotheses, using other data as a way of doing it, because if it's speed to market and speed to learning.
How do you go, which things, and that's part of the reason why minimum viable product, product market fit, all of these things, you know, kind of testing your hypotheses, using other data as a way of doing it, because if it's speed to market and speed to learning.