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WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT FOUNDER-MARKET FIT

Founder-market fit is a big part of a startup's search for product-market fit. The most important factor is whether founders deeply care about the problem and how passionate they are. Experience is an obvious advantage, but it only counts when the passion is still there. When founders spend years on a problem, they come out knowing that space better than almost anyone else. This doesn't disappear with the outcome, and founders can take that experience with them into whatever comes next.

YOUR APP IS LOSING ITS GRIP ON YOUR CUSTOMERS

Product merit used to be closely tied to human usability, so developers created attractive interfaces and intuitive workflows. UI is still important for jobs where people operate the product directly, but agents will increasingly start operating every part of every product. This means over time, familiarity and learned workflows will exert less influence over whether customers stay. Businesses will have to earn their place in customers' workflows even when the customer no longer sees their interfaces. This changes what usability, differentiation, and loyalty mean.

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