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basil
@itsbasil
this one will get a lot of hate & disagreement but i think one of the biggest mistakes this industry has made is funding yappers, ie., VCs funding thinkbois & founders thinking they need to post multiple times a day & have an opinion on everything to remain relevant this leans somewhat into the overblown concept & emphasis surrounding attention do you think zuck or bezos or jobs or whoever where posting over intellectualized opinions & daily learnings in their early days still to this day, the vast majority of our most effective ceos & founders do not do this—most don’t even want to provide opinions on earnings calls: they want to stick to operations, they want to be black & white outside of one or two 30-minute conference chats a year, which from my experience, most tend to loathe anyway, leaders do not yap; they run companies not until these leaders have successfully exited a multi decade run do they even entertain a book or sharing their learnings this industry conflates the two
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Lior - Launch mode 👀
@lior
I can relate to this very much. but i ask myself - could it be the change and the characteristics of building today, where attention is the scarcest asset , and therefore founders need to be out there ? In the past building the tech would be the most complex thing. could this changes also change the 80/20 of founders focus ? disclaimer - i'm with you and always been leaning towards shipping stuff vs. talking about stuff. but i also feel how other founders that are good at communicating are carries over the waves of attention while others remain lonely in the desert of good products with less attetion p.s - this is part of the back story and inspiration that led me to work on ProductClank - how can anyone who like the social yapping part to help founders who simply wanna build
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basil
@itsbasil
i always say attention will flow where value is found—you may not find irrational exuberance or some disconnected multiple, but you will always do well if the product produces value the other thing to consider is users != holders & both need to be built for & communicated to, in their own right—the challenge of a token but build something people want to use & 9/10 times the rest will fall into place if not, you can always hire a comms & marketing person to straighten out the branding, messaging & “sell the vision”— if such case it can be external on contact in order to keep the team lean this is more than enough to get you to market; once established, things will start to change a bit depending on targeted users/growth
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