product-market fit
also referred to as: product market fit
6 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Feb 18, 2022 by Meltem Demirors · across every show →
Everything said about product-market fit, oldest first
Feb 18, 2022 bullish
Jun 1, 2023 positive
Isenberg: Founders should hire agencies pre-PMF to minimize early equity dilution
“The most amount of equity you're going to give away is going to be now pre product market fit. So therefore I'd much rather spend a little bit. Get further along, prove that, and then have to give up less equity after.”
Jun 29, 2023 negative
Sep 14, 2023
Smith: Founders unsure about product-market fit definitely do not have it
“You can ask people the question, do you have product markets in their business? And they'll be like, I think so. And you'll be like, you do not have it. Because it is such a crazy clear feeling when you have it that you're like, oh shit, this is it.”
Feb 3, 2025 neutral
Azut: Founders divide into artist-visionaries versus iterative hypothesis-testers
“I think there's two types of founders, broadly speaking. I think there's founders that operate less like business executives and more like artists. They have a creative vision and they're manifesting it, and they're not really solving a problem. They're just m…”
Jun 11, 2026 negative
Isenberg: One-prompting startup ideas rarely achieves product-market fit
“So what I'm seeing on X and other places is people are just one prompting these startup ideas. And they're not getting really what they want. It might look visually great, but from my perspective, I don't think it's something that has a high likelihood of PMF,…”