yego.me
yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

It's all about talking to your users.

less than 1m read
·Nov 3, 2024

Most people in the world have the idea on how new startups are formed completely wrong. They think ideas of new products is something the founders come up with on a lazy Sunday or a late night coding session. You probably know it doesn't work this way. This scene, as you can see here, is a scene from The Social Network movie. It's a great movie, but they got a lot of things wrong on how Facebook actually got started.

This is Brian Chesky. Brian is the co-founder and CEO of Airbnb. On the left side of the photo is Amal. Amal was the very first guest on Airbnb. They actually spent a weekend together in San Francisco when they'd be kind of washed.

You notice the difference between this photo and the previous photo? Well, this photo actually is a real photo. It includes a two-way conversation with a real customer. Great founders talk to future customers before they even have a product. In fact, the very best founders in the world learn directly from their users throughout the life of their company.

Let that sink in. If you have correctly identified who your users are, you should learn from them throughout the lifetime of your company.

Standard potential, free energy, and the equilibrium constant | AP Chemistry | Khan Academy
The Dark Side of Wealth: The High Price of Success

More Articles

View All
This Is What It's Like to Be a Space Rocket Launcher in Alaska | Short Film Showcase
We were up at the maintenance shop and we were waiting for it to go off. When it went off, you know, I was like everybody was real happy for the first couple of seconds. Then after that, it’s like, oh no, something’s not right, kind of a hopeless person. …
How to Invest $1.6 BILLION DOLLARS if you win the Powerball Lottery
What’s up you guys, it’s Graham here! So here’s something that’s probably all crossed our minds at some point or another: have you ever been faced with the dilemma of what happens when you win the one point six billion dollar jackpot lottery, and you sim…
Expenditure approach to calculating GDP examples | AP Macroeconomics | Khan Academy
What I hope to do in this video is provide even more examples to make sure we really understand how various things would be accounted for in the expenditure approach to GDP. Now, we have talked about this in other videos. There are many different ways of …
When Ringling Bros. Retires Its Elephants, This is Where They Live | National Geographic
In March of 2015, we announced that we were going to transition all of the elephants on our three Ringling Brothers Touring units to the Center for Elephant Conservation. So, those 13 animals will come and live here. The reason it takes 3 years is we need…
Renovation Day 27: IT'S ALMOST DONE!!
What’s up you guys? It’s Graham here. So I actually had somebody filming for me, which is pretty much the first time in ever. It’s a little weird for me not to be like holding a camera. But anyway, public thank you so much for filming behind me. So I fig…
Can You Picture That? This Photographer Can and Does | Podcast | Overheard at National Geographic
Foreign [Music] November 2nd, and I am getting into my Tyvek suit. So, because bats carry diseases that we don’t know about, we have to wear PPE. And we all know about PPE because of COVID. So that’s Mark Thiessen. He’s a staff photographer for National G…