Liberty: Founders underestimate internal control and overestimate market influence
Edo Liberty · He got rejected by 40 VCs & had 6 months of runway—2 years later, he raised $100M from a16z. | Ed... · PMF Show · Mar 17, 2025 · at 1:00:12
Pinecone founder and CEO Edo Liberty shares the top lesson he gives early-stage founders regarding what is inside versus outside their control.
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“I think the one thing that founders Tend to misjudge is how much control they have over anything in both directions. Sometimes you feel like you're constrained by your team or by your customer or by this or by that, and you feel super, you know, stressed and boxed in about a bunch of stuff where somebody needs to come to you and say, yeah, you can just, it's your company. You can just decide how things work and tell people what it is. And just, if they don't like it, they can go to help. At the same time you also overestimate your ability to influence the market”
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