Taylor: Community building provides more startup growth leverage than marginal technical improvements
Carly Taylor · From Xbox to Databricks: Carly Taylor’s Rebel Path in Data Science & Gaming AI · Sep 14, 2023 · at 21:59
Carly Taylor, founder of Rebel Data Science, advises technical founders on prioritizing community distribution over minor product optimizations.
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“Sometimes you can over index on the technical and getting maybe, you know, your platform to be five percent more fast or supported on one more browser might not 10 X you the way that spending that time building a community would.”
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