Great post as always. I look forward to it every week.
Every day I read that you have to "just ship;" "keep grinding;" "no more moats;" "speed is the only moat; "competitors will copy your features and vaporize what you just shipped..."
Let me see if I have this right: the only path to success left now is to build a high-speed software engineering machine that ships features almost daily. Forever. Anything short of that will fail (and take investor money with it). Is that it?
thanks. Good question - don't mean it literally but as it relates to your company. Example Cursor says it wants to obsolete itself every 12 months which means keeping an eye on building always. It does not mean shipping every day but relative to even days of SaaS, the speed is so much faster.
I never say only path to success but when looking at companies how fast folks move, iterate, etc is a huge determinant of success. Customers want companies they can grow with - sell the product which is selling what you have today, market the vision which is showing the future - if that future is years away then meh but over time if you can show them you can deliver against it then it's a winning combo
Great post as always. I look forward to it every week.
Every day I read that you have to "just ship;" "keep grinding;" "no more moats;" "speed is the only moat; "competitors will copy your features and vaporize what you just shipped..."
Let me see if I have this right: the only path to success left now is to build a high-speed software engineering machine that ships features almost daily. Forever. Anything short of that will fail (and take investor money with it). Is that it?
Is this what customers want?
Not being snarky. Sincere question.
thanks. Good question - don't mean it literally but as it relates to your company. Example Cursor says it wants to obsolete itself every 12 months which means keeping an eye on building always. It does not mean shipping every day but relative to even days of SaaS, the speed is so much faster.
I never say only path to success but when looking at companies how fast folks move, iterate, etc is a huge determinant of success. Customers want companies they can grow with - sell the product which is selling what you have today, market the vision which is showing the future - if that future is years away then meh but over time if you can show them you can deliver against it then it's a winning combo