Harj Taggar - Why Do Startups Fail

Harj Taggar talks about the reasons many startups fail. Harj Taggar is a partner at YC and was the CEO and co-founder of Triplebyte.

[@jamessinka]

Love the "you're a doctor, talk to your users to figure out their problems, then you prescribe the meds not them"

[@iamitpkumar]

That point about "Technical founders" is a harsh truth... I can totally relate!

[@pjcollazo8318]

Yes! It is so important to just execute and prove out your product rather than getting stuck in a refinement loop. Just look at Pieter Levels @levelsio with Nomad List which started as a simple index.php file. That said, the refinement loop should happen once users are acquired.

[@iamitpkumar]

@@pjcollazo8318 Agree!

[@amarriyaz6723]

So concise yet so informative!! I see you look for this ability in the founders you work with right? Thanks for helping me realise this 🙏🏼

[@imrannazir6931]

Great advice. A red flag for me at tech companies is when founders refer to their users as stupid or idiots.

[@lurker782]

*cough facebook *cough

[@RDMello18]

Beautifully concise.

[@Pure_taste]

Love the analogy here

[@algeriennesaffaires7017]

1:25 i think you're wrong here, users care about how the software looks its very important, you're right about not making it perfect from the beginning but a working app will definitely make user love to come back to it

[@matthewmorley7218]

There's a difference between it working and being polished. You shouldn't launch something that breaks the promise you've made to a user, but you'll be surprised how much a user is willing to put up with if you're on the right track.

[@wepyk6552]

What’s your successful startup?

[@William_Clinton_Muguai]

Users don't care about the greatness of the code that u wrote, but that the product solves a real problem 4 them.

[@scthief4421]

Thank you Mate!

[@anasalbarghouthy2485]

Some think that talking to users is not that important because they're also a user, but this is a very big mistake since you can build the best product that is overfitted to you and not the entire class of users you belong to. Talking to users doesn't have to be face-to-face or even a conversation, for example you can parse user reviews on alternative products that you're competing against though this is not always possible.

[@Alex-xf8pl]

Easy to maintain and to scale (beautiful) code allows faster implementation of new ideas. I think it is better to refactor early than to leave the code turn into a big mess. I agree that this will not make for good user solutions by itself and that should be the main goal and focus.

Code is not your product. Technically, it should be refactored as later as possible and should be initiated witu senior engineers minimum. This ll take away your future hussle. But what valuable is your contracts, products, customer satisfaction. Nothing else

[@AmmarXYZ]

Love it, no extra words you just nailed it. Excellent 👌

[@great567]

Steve Jobs didn't ask design questions to non-designers. He's asked product questions to his users. That's the Big difference

[@jonjon3829]

This guy was done once he got separated from riot near the rocket.

[@stacyhackney6100]

Thank you.

[@phasematerialsresearch9319]

Super solid advice

[@gustavocezero]

Accurate.

[@Sondre7]

Great clip

[@srr.6529]

80 percent is luck 20 percent is knowing you got lucky and setting the sails to catch the luck and succeed.

[@shahirabdullah5438]

If my best friends don't "Love" my product I don't try to sell it to others.

[@redlizardhair9423]

I would advise never asking friends or family for feedback... too much bias.

[@MaiFast]

Yes, they will always said to you it's a amazing product,

[@surajprakashthakkar1672]

Nice...

[@mastaspy1408]

good

[@DoctorPe949]

Y combinator apply details

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