Kevin Systrom
The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Kevin Systrom exemplifies The Pioneer, a leader who finds unclaimed territory and builds the map others follow. His defining move was the pivot from Burbn, a cluttered check-in app, to Instagram, a stripped-down photo experience that arrived exactly as smartphone cameras matured.
“Yeah, totally. So, I mean, I use this thing called training peaks, and it's interesting because it actually mathematically shows where you are on the curve and all this stuff. But you have to have that rest, but it's a function of going harder for longer.”
“Well, let's go back to the founding of Facebook and why it worked really well initially at Harvard. And then Dartmouth and Stanford. And I can't remember, probably MIT. There were like a handful of schools in that first tranche, right? It worked because there are communities that exist in the world that want to transact.”
“So, a couple things. One is I would not assume Clubhouse is down for the count at all. They're young. They have plenty of money. They're run by really smart people. I'd give them a very fighting chance to figure it out.”
“Basically, I would say a couple things. First off, don't even ask the question. Just find product market fit, duct tape it together, right? Like if you have to. I think there's a big caveat here, which I want to get to. Generally, all that matters is product market fit. That's all that matters if people like your product.”
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