Shane Parrish with Mark Pincus
Reinventing every aspect of your product is a recipe for failure, but legally copying what is already proven and perfecting a single feature can build a billion-dollar empire.
The proven, better, new framework states that you should legally copy established product mechanics, introduce one highly obvious customer improvement, and test small, atomic units of new ideas.
Rather than wasting months building a traditional minimum viable product, teams should construct a failure machine at the top of the funnel to test user demand through immediate click testing.
Operating in founder mode requires a democratic dictatorship where the leader seeks honest input from everyone but retains total unilateral decision-making authority.