A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders
00:46:08 · Pablo Srugo, Astro Teller
[00:46:08] S2: Perfect, well, listen, I think that's a perfect place to stop. I'll ask maybe just one more question. What would be a top piece of advice that you would have for early stage founders that are in their pre Product Market Fit? Maybe they have an idea, maybe they don't yet. Maybe they've got signals of something kind of working. What would you say to them, having built and worked with so many ideas over the last decade plus? [00:46:29] S0: I'm going to give you a very non traditional answer, but I deeply believe it. The hardest and most important thing for anyone to learn is, some people would call it managing their own psychology. Some people would call it wisdom, personal growth, but the extent to which people don't really understand themselves and their relationship to the world. Where there are inner forces that are driving them in pretty complex ways. Causes them to be so imperfect as managers and leaders. I guarantee you, for most of your listeners, doing that hard personal inner work will pay more dividends over the next ten years. Maybe your company will die in the meantime, I don't know. But over the next ten years, that's the thing that will supercharge them the most. Not hiring a better business development person. [00:47:22] S2: Perfect, Astro, thanks so much for spending the time. It's been great. [00:47:25] S0: Thank you.
00:47:25 · Astro Teller, Pablo Srugo
[00:47:25] S0: Thank you. [00:47:26] S2: So picture this. It's months from now, years from now and one of your founder friends. A really close founder friend 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 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 want to 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.