Reid Hoffman

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.

And part of the reason why embarrassment is because our natural instinct as people, as entrepreneurs is we want you to tell us, oh my God, we love what you did. And actually, in fact, you want them to grow to love what you did. And obviously the more they love it at the beginning, that's great. But your speed of learning it and deploying it and scaling it is the game.

And part of the reason why embarrassment is because our natural instinct as people, as entrepreneurs is we want you to tell us, oh my God, we love what you did. And actually, in fact, you want them to grow to love what you did. And obviously the more they love it at the beginning, that's great. But your speed of learning it and deploying it and scaling it is the game.

And part of the reason why embarrassment is because our natural instinct as people, as entrepreneurs is we want you to tell us, oh my God, we love what you did. And actually, in fact, you want them to grow to love what you did. And obviously the more they love it at the beginning, that's great. But your speed of learning it and deploying it and scaling it is the game.

And part of the reason why embarrassment is because our natural instinct as people, as entrepreneurs is we want you to tell us, oh my God, we love what you did. And actually, in fact, you want them to grow to love what you did. And obviously the more they love it at the beginning, that's great. But your speed of learning it and deploying it and scaling it is the game.

And part of the reason why embarrassment is because our natural instinct as people, as entrepreneurs is we want you to tell us, oh my God, we love what you did. And actually, in fact, you want them to grow to love what you did. And obviously the more they love it at the beginning, that's great. But your speed of learning it and deploying it and scaling it is the game.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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So obviously people are familiar with pivots because it's not working, right? And there's different ways to get to the conclusion before it totally is a train wreck. You want to make the decision that's not working before the train wreck happens, you know, change tracks. But one of the things that people underdescribe is a pivot to a new opportunity.

So obviously people are familiar with pivots because it's not working, right? And there's different ways to get to the conclusion before it totally is a train wreck. You want to make the decision that's not working before the train wreck happens, you know, change tracks. But one of the things that people underdescribe is a pivot to a new opportunity.

So obviously people are familiar with pivots because it's not working, right? And there's different ways to get to the conclusion before it totally is a train wreck. You want to make the decision that's not working before the train wreck happens, you know, change tracks. But one of the things that people underdescribe is a pivot to a new opportunity.