Sean Mullaney

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The Entrepreneur Experiment · Why 10x Goals Are Easier Than 10% Ones: 5 Scaling Secrets from Google X & Zalando with Sean Mullaney · 23 Apr 2026 podcast

So you think this is a fundamental shift?

It's not like web 3.0?

So like when mobile arrived, right, and the app store arrived, right, what happened?

Thousands and thousands of apps were created.

And then thousands of startups were funded.

And everyone tried to see how could we recreate and solve problems.

And, you know, something like an Uber would never have been built pre-mobile.

And so it's the folks that are looking at the technology and saying these capabilities are new.

We've never had them before.

Let's like sift through the world's problems, figure out how can I apply it to create an experience that's like five or ten times better for a consumer.

is that the bar it has to be five or ten times better oh absolutely i mean this is this is something that um i learned when i was working at the google x labs um if you are not creating an experience and if you're if you're a 10 better product right first of all there's always a switching cost for a user you know i'm i'm doing something this way you come up and you say i've got a new product a new app it's 10 times 10 better

right that is just not enough of a you know kind of pain threshold for you to go and change you know humans have a lot of inertia um and it needs to be five or ten times better and if you have something that's five or ten times better people will move fast

I love that.

I need those anchors as a founder to go, not just a little bit better.

It has to be five to 10 times better.

So here's a kind of, um, somewhat not obvious thing about being 10 times better at something.

Um,

at Google X, we had this kind of phrase, which is like, if you can make something 10 times cheaper, 10 times faster, 10 times easier, think about self-driving cars, right?

You know, these things are going to be 10 times safer, more convenient.

Um, the, the,

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