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by redm 2999 days ago
As I've gotten older (ironically) I've felt this should be the case; key decisions have such an impact on the success or failure of a startup, it's much more likely you make the right key decisions the more experience and wisdom you have.
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PG has written about that. He made the point that, in 1998, the people with experience and wisdom all agreed that the world had enough search engines already.
I have an issue with "all". Unless he did interview all the people with experience and wisdom. Otherwise it is just a soundbite.
This one reminds me of when years ago I wrote about the "already-exists" startup fallacy/bias: https://medium.com/@halfhenry/how-to-tell-when-you-should-an...
Well they were only off by one or two.