product

4 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Aug 30, 2016 by Jessica Livingston · across every show →

Everything said about product, oldest first

Aug 30, 2016 positive
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Livingston: The Most Successful Founders Focus Exclusively on Product and Users
“The most successful founders, I've noticed, are totally focused on two things. Building their product and making something people want, which of course is our motto and talking to their users. And they do not let themselves get distracted by anything else.”
Jessica Livingston Aug 30, 2016 ▶ 1:42 Jessica Livingston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
Feb 23, 2018 positive
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Altman: Successful blitzscaling requires perfecting product quality before scaling demand
“The number one most important insight about how to blitz scale is that the good kind of blitz scaling is when you are not having to generate demand as you go, but that you first got the product right.”
Sam Altman Feb 23, 2018 ▶ 28:57 Uncut Interview with Sam Altman on Masters of Scale [Audio] · Y Combinator
Sep 5, 2018 positive
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Rusenko: Great brands are built on the same core insight as the product
“Great brands are built around a fundamental insight, a consumer insight that some truth that's just not really acknowledged out there. And ideally this is the same one that your product is built on. So it's really, really powerful if you can identify that insi…”
David Rusenko Sep 5, 2018 ▶ 39:05 David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit · Y Combinator
Sep 8, 2025 negative
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McGrew: Bringing one-off FDE solutions directly into core products causes over-specialization
“There's a classic failure mode here where, you know, the FD implements something for one customer and you say, great, well, that's how you should do it. And you bring it directly into the product. And it turns out if you do that, you're building something that…”
Bob McGrew Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 17:08 The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew · Y Combinator
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