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#232 – How to Punch Above Your Weight with Sonal Chokshi of a16z

Indie Hackers

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You're Not Ambitious, You Have to Work Your Way There

i think that's probably the right criticism to hear early on, though, that like, you're not ambitious enough. If you want to build a big media brand, you can't start out the gate by just copying what the biggest meteo brands are doing. And so it probably should look really unambitious at first. It should look really simple at first, so you can focus on things and figure out what works. i wasn't too fussed by most of the feedback along those lines. But that's exactly the point, is that you can absolutely have big ambitions, but you do have to create like, stepways on the way there. We're also actively taking pitches.

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