He quit Stripe and hit $10M ARR in 4 years—with $0 marketing spend. | Anurag Goel, Founder of Render

00:46:14 · Pablo Srugo, Anurag GoelPlay from here

[00:46:14] S1: Perfect. Well, let's stop there. Let me ask the the last question we always end on. What would be like your number one piece of advice for an early stage founder that's just in that early phase of finding product market fit? [00:46:25] S0: I would say something that I may have said earlier in the interview, which is I think all startup problems, all industries are hard and somewhat equally hard. So go for the most ambitious version of what you're trying to do because it's not materially that much harder than the less ambitious version. And the more ambitious version is actually gonna help you hire more interesting people, people who wanna solve harder problems. It's probably going to help you with fundraising because the market might be bigger, and it'll just be more interesting. Perfect. Thanks so much, man. Really appreciate it. Of course. Thank you. Thank you for having me. This is great.

00:46:25 · Anurag Goel, Pablo SrugoPlay from here

[00:46:25] S0: I would say something that I may have said earlier in the interview, which is I think all startup problems, all industries are hard and somewhat equally hard. So go for the most ambitious version of what you're trying to do because it's not materially that much harder than the less ambitious version. And the more ambitious version is actually gonna help you hire more interesting people, people who wanna solve harder problems. It's probably going to help you with fundraising because the market might be bigger, and it'll just be more interesting. Perfect. Thanks so much, man. Really appreciate it. Of course. Thank you. Thank you for having me. This is great. [00:47:04] S1: So picture this. It's months from now, years from now, and one of your founder friends, a really close founder friends of yours, guess what? Their startup went bankrupt. And it turns out, if you had just shared the product market fit show with them, they would have learned everything they needed to to find product market fit and to create a huge success. But instead, their startup has completely failed. You have blood on your hands. Don't let that happen. You don't wanna live like that. It is terrible. So do what you need to do. Tell them about the show. Send it to them. Put it on WhatsApp. Put it on Slack. Put it where you need to put it. Just make sure they know about it and they check it out.