I was thinking something like this yesterday when someone posted a blog post about an evolutionary perspective on product market fit. That ended up being a bit of a misnomer and it was really an article about the observation that sex sells, and people are motivated by sex because of evolution, but I was thinking what the article should have been is the real evolutionary perspective is competition itself. Nobody other than you as a founder gives a shit if your specific company succeeds. All that matters is that a need is addressed, some product fits some market. As a consumer, I don't give a crap who is at the other end of a transaction profiting just so long as I get the product I need. As an investor, thanks to diversification, I don't really give a shit which companies make it and which don't just so long as an entire sector grows. Even as an employee in an industry where it is very easy and quick to find a new job and it usually involves a pay raise, I'm not sure I care all that much if my employer continues to exist. I'm not even really sure you should care that much as a founder. As long as funding sources continue to give you money and you use some of that to pay yourself, if one idea fails, try another. Don't get too attached to whatever you're working on right this minute, just so long as at least one thing you try eventually works.
Think of like the commercial equivalent of the United States and every constitutional republic that has followed. We don't have kings. Institutions should outlive regimes. Dynamic markets are healthy markets. Chaos is a ladder or something like that.
Think of like the commercial equivalent of the United States and every constitutional republic that has followed. We don't have kings. Institutions should outlive regimes. Dynamic markets are healthy markets. Chaos is a ladder or something like that.