[alnayyir]

90% of the people giving 90% of business presentations don't know enough of the details or just plain don't have the chops to actually go into detail or back up the assertions they're making.

Utilizing some sort of data-driven process to establish that, "these are our customers priorities" and "we are superior in these priorities" would be black magic to them.

Probably Google's greatest strength is their emphasis on data/empiricism.

[SoftwareMaven]

I think that is also a weakness at Google. They are great at tracking and processing data, but I don't think they are good at intersecting what that data means with the human priorities behind the data. In other words, they can tell if A > B for existing work, but they don't seem to do very good at telling whether C will be better than A, instead choosing to shotgun and hope enough stuff sticks.

Good product management (which early founders must do) is about determining what data to gather by figuring out why the data is important to the future of the product. It costs money/time to gather and analyze data, so knowing you are gathering the right data is important. In the process, you hope to be able to answer whether C will be greater than A.

[alnayyir]

>"Being awesome is better than merely being good"

Why yes, yes it is.

Like yourself, I like to mention how great BMWs are when a couple people are discussing deals on used cars.