Puri: Post-PMF founders must shift from product builders to capital allocators
Shaan Puri · If I Had To Make $1 Billion... Here’s The Business I Would Start · Dec 8, 2023 · at 26:33
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr discuss the mental shift founders experience regarding payroll and resource management as their companies scale.
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“Once you build the product and the product has part, which Hampton does has product market fit. People like it, they use it, they they're in it. Now you're a capital allocator. Basically, you're taking, you're just deciding where resources go. So I need to be able to, like, you can't be tight on money because money is your job. You have to deploy that in a way that's going to get more output than the input, and sometimes you'll miss, you're not going to be a hundred percent, but knowing that that's the job makes it easier”
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