A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders
00:29:33 · Pablo Srugo, Dylan
[00:29:33] S1: Final question, if you could go back to when you were just starting Assembly AI back in 2016, 2017 with one piece of advice for yourself, what would that be? [00:29:42] S0: I would have advised myself to take a longer-term view in the first year, especially coming out of YC. Slow down. Now that you're done with YC, what do you want to accomplish over the next two years? Where do you want to be in two years and then just work towards that. I think, like I was mentioning earlier, coming out of YC, you're trained within those 90 days to just be like, the clock is ticking, the clock is ticking, the clock is ticking. You're always thinking that when you're running a startup because there are macro factors, right? Other people are competing in the same space. You can’t just operate on your own timeline. I would have given myself, urged myself to take more permission to think longer term about what I want to have accomplished within a year or two years and then break that back down into quarterly goals and use that as a foundation of hiring and prioritization versus trying to just make quick progress as quickly as possible. [00:30:40] S1: Perfect, well, thanks a lot, Dylan. I mean, you're now one of the leading companies in what is probably the hottest sector. Really appreciate you taking us through the early days and what it took for you to build what's now having so much success. Appreciate you jumping on the show. [00:30:55] S0: Yeah, thanks for having me on. Appreciate it.
00:30:55 · Dylan, Pablo Srugo
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