[JohnBooty]

This is wack advice.

There's value in shipping an MVP (or multiple MVPs) fast, sure. Cull the failures and iterate the successes. Better than trying to achieve perfection with a forever-delayed product that never ships.

But even the sloppiest, most minimal MVP has to get something extremely right. You need to solve some problem for the user in ways that others haven't.

If you don't get things right enough, you've just trashed your entire brand. Game over.

And sometimes, getting things "right" is literally your entire unique selling point. Look at Apple nailing the iPod's features in ways that its predecessors didn't. Look at Tesla nailing their vehicles' features in ways that its predecessors didn't. Etc.

[serf]

>Look at Apple

both Apple and Tesla have had plenty of failures to learn from -- and they recovered remarkably.

There isn't much reason to believe that the parents' quote is at-odds with the operation of either of those two companies.

[KerrAvon]

No, sorry. That's not Apple's corporate culture. Apple is not and never has been a "fail fast and learn from your failures" company.

Tesla, on the other hand, is a great example -- they're willing, even enthusiastic, about killing their customers as learning experience.