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Chaudhary: Apparent lack of market is often a packaging problem
“It could be that what everyone is pointing to is like a lack of a market is actually just a product and packaging problem.”
Transforming an industry means serving consumers, not incumbent suppliers
“If you're building Airbnb and you want to transform hospitality, you don't start by selling software to hotels that might make hotels a little bit better, a little bit more efficient, whatever. But it doesn't massively transform the experience for the end user…”
Companies decay when they tolerate errors of inaction while punishing initiative
“One of the pernicious things that companies get into is they start to tolerate errors of inaction. They're like, well, I didn't do anything, so I can't be wrong. And they start to punish errors of initiative and boldness.”
Chaudhary: Market risk is the most exciting startup risk
“It's actually the most exciting form of risk where there's one or two assumptions that if you are wrong about, or if you're right about as an entrepreneur, you suddenly unlock an enormous market that no one knew was there.”
Chaudhary: Consumer apps should avoid tight specifications to allow emergent behavior
“In the consumer side of things, we're very careful not to overbuild and really tightly specify how you must use this product. We actually kept it kind of open to see what would emerge.”
Chaudhary: ClassDojo chooses candor over harmony when facing cultural trade-offs
“We have a value in the company we call candor over harmony. It's not that we don't like harmony, but it's like, if we have to pick as a trade-off, we'll pick candor.”