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Jeff Feiwell
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The Idea Maze is certainly not wrong, but there are also countless examples where successful startups did not start by going through it. e.g. Uber and AirBnb
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Antonio García Martínez
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What? They absolutely went through it. Those products today are not what they started as, and there was struggle to get there. The time in the maze gets retconned out of the story in favor of one of effortless, providential success.
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Jeff Feiwell
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Perhaps we’re talking about different time scales. Uber figured out the medallion system and scaling with X vs black cars, but none of that was accounted for out of the gate Idea Maze paper implies founder know about every possible path and obstacle before pressing go
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Antonio García Martínez
@antonio
That theoretical construct doesn't exist in reality, and even in Balaji's paper, the real world examples he cites are definitely *not* ones here the founder knew the maze beforehand.
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