[shannifin]

I kinda question what the author is thinking of as the "problem". He says:

> unfortunately what we had built had only marginal improvements to what was being offered by other platforms

... Is it really a problem if there are already solutions?

As you say:

> I've met many many founders who have had too much passion about a single problem

I wonder if it might also be about the narrowness of the defined problem? That is, if you can define a problem in more abstract or general terms (such as "help people more easily do XYZ"), you can, assuming that still interests you, give yourself plenty of room to be flexible without needing to completely abandon the problem of interest.