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by irjustin 899 days ago
> faster, faster, faster. Everything is about speed. When will things be about quality?

Ironically, quality is the enemy of a startup. You can only do quality once you've got Product Market Fit (very very subjective thing, i understand). The analogy is building a quality, beautiful hotel on Antarctica - it's effectively useless and no one will pay you money you need for it to survive.

Oversimplification is, test, test, test until something sticks. Once something sticks optimize it with quality.

So initially, yes, you need faster, faster, faster.

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I view your analogy completely different. There is a set of problems that require excellence from the start. No one will go to your hotel in Antarctica if it’s built like a shack house and they don’t feel safe there! If you can’t achieve that kind of quality don’t even bother trying to build it.