My friend couldn't sell a glass faucet because he couldn't accept a credit card. That's a broken system.
Scheduling a meeting should not require 8 emails. That is insane. I built Calendly because the problem was so obvious and so universal that I could not believe nobody had solved it properly.
I grew up in Israel. You learn early that complaining doesn't help. You just solve the problem.
We didn't start Stripe to build a payment company. We started it because accepting payments was absurdly hard.
The best products come from solving your own problems. If you need it, others probably do too.
I couldn't figure out shipping for my handbag business. So I built the solution myself.
I started with false lashes because I genuinely could not find good ones. The best businesses start with a problem you personally cannot solve.
I had rosacea and I could not find a product that made me feel like myself. So I built it.