Doing Things That Don't Scale

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the Y Combinator Startup Podcast Lenny's Podcast

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Dessaigne: Founders should manually do the work before writing software
“Doing things that don't scale, I think the main goal is that how much can I learn today? Not waiting to have developed anything. Maybe what I'm going to develop is going to be the wrong thing. Like, if I can do anything like manually even going physically doin…”
Nicolas Dessaigne May 30, 2024 ▶ 12:25 Startup Experts Discuss Doing Things That Don't Scale · Y Combinator
Alströmer: Founders cannot start a startup with a growth team mindset
“You can't start a startup with a growth team mindset, because that is just scalable things all the time. And really what you need to go back to is doing things that don't scale and unscale your way of thinking about customers. But it's really useful to have th…”
Gustaf Alströmer Mar 2, 2023 ▶ 57:46 Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Airbnb)

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