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Markets reveal demand, you don't create it

Discovery → Problem Identification

The market is immutable, no amount of tweeting, LinkedIn posting, advertising is going to change whether the market wants your product. It might raise awareness about your product, but it's not going to change whether somebody wants it.

Matt MacInnis"I deliberately understaff every project" | Leadership lessons from Rippling's $16B journey
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Be different and better in ways people care about. We were different and better in these Google projects in ways people didn't care about.

Paul AdamsWhat AI means for your product strategy
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If this is an important problem, your customer's probably already solving it somehow. It may be a workaround, it may be an alternative, it may not be a direct competitor, but if it's worth solving, they probably have some way of dealing with it today.

Jake Knapp and John ZeratskyMaking time for what matters | Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (Authors of Make Time, Character VC)