Founders: You're Too Late or Too Early?
42sThis paradoxical insight about timing resonates with entrepreneurs and creators, sparking debate and reflection on market readiness.
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The great founders almost always feel like you're too late and you're almost always too early. [music] For you, it's become obvious. As far as you're concerned, the world should already work this way, which is why you're pursuing it. The reality is you're almost always too early. We almost never see a qualified founder fail cuz they're too late to market. It's almost always cuz they're too early to market. The iPad is like this breakthrough product in 2009
and every, you know, Apple, oh my god, they invent all these things. Well, there was this thing called the Newton 20 years earlier, uh, in 1989. If you haven't heard of it, look it up on Wikipedia. It was the iPad 20 years earlier and it was like virtually the same thing.