Build Fast Product Perfection Is a Myth

What this short covers

This video features Michel Tricot, co-founder and CEO of Airbyte, discussing how his company grew to over 6,000 community members and 16,000 deployments in just one year, ultimately raising over $180M from prominent investors.

Transcript

Yeah, it's especially when you're early in your journey, your product will have deficiencies. Like there is no way you can build a perfect product. If you're building a perfect product, you're not moving fast enough. And for me, it's when people go above and beyond. They accept a level of workaround. they accept a level of yeah there are pieces that are missing but it's solving such an acute pain that I am willing to forget about them or just be okay if they are done um a year from now or two years from now and to me that's really what product and even project market fit means is the problem is you're solving is so acute for for your user that they're willing to do anything they can to actually use your solution

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