Mike Maples Jr
Chapters
Lenny Rachitsky
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Key terms: ASAP, Pattern Breakers, Mike Maples
They’d done the business model canvas, they’d done customer development, they’d
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Key terms: API, SDK, Mike Maples
Lenny Rachitsky
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Key terms: GPS, Look, Mike Maples
But in tech startups, it’s a point in time where something new gets introduced t
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Key terms: God, So Instagram, First
And if it does, there’s a few we could stress test that we can say, “What is the
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Key terms: GPS, COVID, Mike Maples
Mike Maples, Jr.
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Key terms: COVID, God, Talk
And not everybody’s going to move at first, and so, I can’t waste my time with p
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Key terms: Combinator, Mike Maples, Twitter
Mike Maples, Jr.
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Key terms: Intuit, Econ, Mike Maples
And just like I’m a trained spotter for startups, they become a trained spotter
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Key terms: Celtics, Mike Maples, Now
Mike Maples, Jr.
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Key terms: CEO, Breakthrough Company, Future Fit
Mike Maples, Jr.
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Key terms: IDEO, Dropbox, Future Fit
So I like to say, “If you’re not living in the future, your opinion about it isn
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Key terms: God, Zenefit, Awesome
And so I like to say, “You want to force a choice and not a comparison.” If ever
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Key terms: Mike Maples, Speaking, Yeah
The people who followed Martin Luther King bought into the aesthetically better
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Key terms: Mike Maples, Well, Four Seasons
But so now let’s say you’re four seasons, your whole business is predicated on d
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Key terms: John, Mike Maples, Twitter
So the founders sometimes make the mistake of thinking that they’re the hero, bu
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Key terms: Something, Mike Maples
Mike Maples, Jr.
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Key terms: Peter Fenton, Earlier, Look
You can’t stand out if you always fit in. The only people who are different can
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Key terms: Something, Mike Maples, Well
Mike Maples, Jr.
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Key terms: Say, Forever, Neither
Some examples that I have in the book of good examples are the iPhone, Steve Job
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Key terms: IBM, AWS, Regrets
Mike Maples, Jr.
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Key terms: Mike Maples, Ferraris, Well
Lenny Rachitsky
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Key terms: Pattern Breakers, Mike Maples, Well
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