Jesse Zhang, a repeat founder, shares insights on building startups, emphasizing customer feedback, market validation, and selecting investors based.
Jesse Zhang, a repeat founder, shares insights on building startups, emphasizing customer feedback, market validation, and selecting investors based on trust and long-term alignment. He also discusses building a fast-scaling team with a "clock speed" culture for efficient execution and growth.
So why why did you get so excited with this first company? I mean what was what was it about that idea and and and why were you like we gota we got to do this thing? >> I mean my approach to companies is I don't think you necessarily start with a specific idea in mind. I think that's al also quite dangerous for most folks. Sometimes it works out but in general it's quite dangerous because before you actually start building and shipping and having customers you don't have any signal on whether your idea is good or not. Like maybe you think it's good but most of the time it's not good. So, we had some ideas, but the ideas kept changing because we realized they were not good ideas. And that's that's been true in both companies where in my opinion I think the best way to just get started is have a very open mind and base your ideas off of what you're actually seeing from from