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The Power of Forward and Backward Chaining in Startups
In software, you can either forward chain from your understanding of your code base and say, look, I'm pretty sure that these specific things are the bottlenecks in our code. Or a sort of more empirical approach would be to start profiling your code in those use cases and work backwards from there. The way I think about it in the context of a startup is that I'm trying to find sort of these points on the graph where we need to learn the most. In some cases, that's learning about what the customers want, as we've discussed. And then in other cases, like curing all cancer, right? We know customers want that.