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Adam Jiddelson

Founder & CEO, First Principles · 1 appearance on the record.

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He previously spent seven years at Palantir Technologies leading product development for Gotham, followed by executive roles at Slingshot Aerospace and mePrism. Today, he leads First Principles, an advisory agency coaching founders and tech startups on achieving product-market fit.

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Insight
Judelson: People Who Need Daily External Pushing Do Not Succeed as Founders
“I think there's certain personality types need somebody to be pushing them every single day, but I honestly don't think that those individuals become successful entrepreneurs anyways.”
Adam Jiddelson Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 15:16 Show You Care and Let the Market Teach You
Insight
Judelson: Approach Role Models Atomically Rather Than Replicating Entire Lives
“To me, the idea of, like, looking up to someone, it's always like, oh, like, it's a strange philosophy for me, because it means that you think their life is sort of better than yours, and you want to achieve the things that they've achieved, whereas I look at …”
Adam Jiddelson Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 4:14 Show You Care and Let the Market Teach You
Insight
Judelson: Early VC Eases Initial Growth but Sacrifices Founder Control
“Founders who go and take a bunch of venture capital in the beginning, it's amazing because it's a lot easier to grow quickly in the beginning with that. You can hire the right people. You can start off on a good foot. You don't have to Bootstrap. There's a mil…”
Adam Jiddelson Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 15:27 Show You Care and Let the Market Teach You
Insight
Jiddelson: Desired lifestyles require 10x income growth, not 100x
“To construct the lifestyle you want might only be one order of magnitude higher than what you currently make. It's not like a hundred x or a thousand x”
Adam Jiddelson Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 24:03 Show You Care and Let the Market Teach You
Insight
Judelson: Airlines Charge Customers to Avoid Pain Rather Than Appreciate Comfort
“The product lesson is the airlines are asking you to pay to avoid Pain. They're not asking you to pay to appreciate comfort. And don't get me wrong. You can build a business on either model, but the businesses that I respect are the ones that ask you to pay to…”
Adam Jiddelson Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 28:42 Show You Care and Let the Market Teach You
Insight
Judelson: SaaS pricing tiers should offer positive value rather than avoid punishment
“And I think that's important to really think about what that distinction is when you're offering different tiers of services. Like it should be something that makes the person feel good, not something that makes the person feel, again, like they avoided punish…”
Adam Jiddelson Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 30:46 Show You Care and Let the Market Teach You
Insight
Judelson: Customers dislike paying for value companies did not work to provide
“I think the other thing too, though, is people don't like to pay for value that they don't feel like the company that's providing it had to work for.”
Adam Jiddelson Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 32:40 Show You Care and Let the Market Teach You
Opinion
Judelson: Excel is the most helpful data tool ever built
“People are always like, you know, what's the beta, the best data tool on planet earth? And even when I worked there, I used to give the same answer every time, which was Excel. It's the most prolific, widely deployed, helpful data tool that has ever been built…”
Adam Jiddelson Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 39:35 Show You Care and Let the Market Teach You

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Show You Care and Let the Market Teach You Jan 25, 2024 23m
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