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INSIGHT

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.

ideasinsightYC advice, 2016

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

entrepreneurshipinsightBen Silbermann on the Tote-to-Pinterest pivot, 2017

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-modelinsightConference Talk, 2022

We show companies the gap between how they think they work and how they actually work. The reaction is always horror.

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