Srugo: 10x impact on a fringe enterprise problem never wins budget
Pablo Srugo · He raised $250K, had thousands of users—but here's what he'd do differently next time. | Darius V... · PMF Show · Jan 16, 2025 · at 19:42
Pablo Srugo, host of The Product Market Fit Show, synthesizes Darius Vaillancourt's lesson about enterprise buyer misalignment.
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“I think any large enterprise understands what their core business is, and is always going to be focused on that core business, and as a founder, you've got to figure out what that is, and if you're, like, you know, making a tenx impact on some fringe thing nobody cares about, you're just never going to get The attention you want.”
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