Parr: The startup adage that 'product-market fit is unmistakable' is false
Sam Parr · CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO' (#505) · Oct 10, 2023 · at 47:48
Sam Parr discusses navigating the early stages of building Hampton and pushes back against conventional tech startup aphorisms about product-market fit.
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“Someone tweeted out or something, they're like product market fit is like sex. If you have to ask, you're not having it, or something like that. And I was like, That's so stupid. I've definitely asked in both of those situations if I have it or not. I was like, that's one of those lines, that's one of those lines that sounds good, but that ain't true. I was uncertain multiple times about both of them things.”
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