Makani: Full startup resets almost invariably lose people and momentum
Shoaib Makani · 20VC: Why You Never Want To Fight A Fair Fit For Distribution, Why No Great Company Is Built with 1 Product and When To Release Your Second & What Founders Can Do To Extract The Most From Their Cap Table with Shoaib Makani, Founder & CEO @ KeepTruckin · Feb 7, 2020 · at 7:59
Shoaib Makani, Founder and CEO of KeepTruckin, discusses the operational risks of executing a major company pivot versus validating ideas upfront.
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“If in fact, you know, you're not digging in the right place, it is really, really hard to redirect a team around a whole new opportunity or a whole new market. You can generally kind of pivot on the margins, but doing a whole reset, you almost invariably lose people and you lose progress.”
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