This episode was inspired by a two thousand seven blog post by mark andreeson. For the longest time, i believed the most important component of a start is its team. The quality of your product is only as good as your team. A great market is a big, passionate market that's getting even bigger quickly. If you want to maximize the probability of a start up success, and you can only optimize for one thing, team, product and market, which one are you choosing? I'm going to pause and let you think about it. Then email me with what you chose and why.