A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders
00:55:58 · Pablo Srugo, Cosmin Nicolaescu
[00:55:58] S1: Perfect. So listen. Let's stop it there. I think it's been a great episode. Maybe just as a last question, what would be like a number one piece of advice that you'd give or you tend to give maybe early stage founders that are in this kind of product market fit phase? [00:56:10] S0: I would say the most successful founders that I've seen and the thing that I tried to emulate from Patrick and John and other founders that I've met throughout my life is long term conviction. Things compound over time. I think in it's very easy to be dealing with the problems of today because as an early stage founder, pre product market fit, right after product market fit, like you don't have that escape velocity, which we don't. You are obsessed about like, will I exist in the next week, the next month? Like that's the kind of time frame that you think through. And I think that is right to focus on that. But the things that move the needle in the long run are the things that compound over time. And so having very high conviction over a small number of things and letting those things compound is what I think makes makes very big businesses succeed over time and thrive, as long as you kind of get those things right. I do think one of my favorite operating principles is for Amazon, which is like good leaders often are right. I think there's something very, very, very meaningful there. Like you you have to be right, and if you're not, then you probably shouldn't be a founder. [00:57:13] S1: Well, Kas, thanks so much for spending the time with us, It's been great.
00:57:13 · Pablo Srugo, Cosmin Nicolaescu
[00:57:13] S1: Well, Kas, thanks so much for spending the time with us, It's been great. [00:57:16] S0: Thanks for having me, man. [00:57:17] S1: Wow. What an episode. You're probably in awe. You're in absolute shock. You're like, that helped me so much. So guess what? Now it's your turn to help someone else. Share the episode in the WhatsApp group you have with founders. Share it on that Slack channel. Send it to your founder friends and help them out. Trust me, they will love you for it.