Why Is It Easier to Start a Hard Company Than an Easy Company?

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Boom technology, the personic jet company, graduated from wi commenator in two thousand 16. One year later, they raised 51 million dollars in venture capital. Here is the magic of tackling the seemingly insoluble engineering problems. People fall in love with your idea alone. That's so called hard tech.

The true seed of scale is customer love, which you can’t buy, hack, or game. Sam Altman, former president of Y Combinator, scaled countless start-ups by focusing on this one idea: Finding 100 users who love you is better than 1 million who kinda like you. As CEO of OpenAI, Sam leads the creation of genuinely useful AI products. He shares timeless insights in his interview from 2018 on how to build on the love of passionate customers to create world-shifting tools.

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