Silicon Valley expects you to start a company by finding a problem you have yourself, solving it, and it being a problem for others.
But Amazon’s story was basically, “I did the math on this new thing’s growth, then systematically found the ideal product to play into it.”
But Amazon’s story was basically, “I did the math on this new thing’s growth, then systematically found the ideal product to play into it.”
I have a hunch a lot of founders actually have a Bezos-like story, then make up some apocryphal story that fits the narrative everyone expects to hear
Lambda School is kind of that way.
Of course I have endless stories about incredibly smart friends with crappy jobs, but honestly it was seeing a very broken but huge market I thought we could wedge our way into and win that made me take the leap.
Of course I have endless stories about incredibly smart friends with crappy jobs, but honestly it was seeing a very broken but huge market I thought we could wedge our way into and win that made me take the leap.
If a market is big enough you’ll be surrounded by its broken-ness.
You don’t have to have huge personal medical bills to know how broken the healthcare industry is and to want to fix some small piece of it.
You don’t have to have huge personal medical bills to know how broken the healthcare industry is and to want to fix some small piece of it.
