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# insight — 5 quotes

INSIGHT

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A great startup idea is one where the founder is the only person in the world who could have had that specific insight at that specific moment.

ideasinsight— YC advice, 2016
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My first app was a total failure. Nobody downloaded it. But I noticed users were saving products obsessively. The collecting behavior was the product.

entrepreneurshipinsight— Ben Silbermann on the Tote-to-Pinterest pivot, 2017
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Banks do not lose money by approving bad borrowers. They lose money by rejecting good ones. Every person you wrongly deny is revenue you never see.

business-modelinsight— Conference Talk, 2022
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We show companies the gap between how they think they work and how they actually work. The reaction is always horror.

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Every company runs on processes. Most companies have no idea how those processes actually work.