Danziger: Startups must deprogram perfectionism and ship products they find embarrassing
Susan Danziger · Meta's Mark Zuckerberg: Imperfect is perfect · May 19, 2023 · at 6:27
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Susan Danziger, CEO of Ziggeo, discusses why early-stage founders must overcome perfectionism and launch rough first versions.
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“What you want to do as a startup is kind of release the draft paper, the one that you're sort of embarrassed for the teacher to read, right? The one that you would never actually hand in, and So we have to deprogram ourselves to, you know, so that we actually release things that we are definitely slightly embarrassed about.”
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