Coinbase founder shares the Y Combinator advice that helped Coinbase find product/market fit
The first version of any product rarely works, and that’s exactly what happened with Coinbase.
When Brian Armstrong, the founder, launched Coinbase, it wa
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Hey I am on Medial • 2m
Classic pivot story. Wallet -> Exchange was genius. But today's founders want instant unicorn status
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It's eye opening to see that, out of 1,263 unicorn founders, only 56 were dropouts (that’s just 4.4%).
Meanwhile:
- 485 had a Bachelor's
- 259 had a Master's
- 236 had an MBA
- 286 had a Doctorate
That means a PhD is 5x more common than a dropout a
## Day 60: Rapido's Rocket Ride: Lessons from Bengaluru's Unicorn Maker
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60% of the Indian founders built a unicorn in their very 1st attempt !!!
29% of the founders did this in two attempts.
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Mahendra Lochhab
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National Startup Day was started by PM Narendra Modi on 16 January 2016. Till 2015, there were 450 startups in the country, whose number has increased to 1.57 lakh today. Currently there are 118 unicorn startups in the country.
Startups have provide
founders can't always be right ✅ while implementing their product. the users may use it differently too.. we should have guts or decision making skills to pivot ASAP!.
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A great example of this is Instagram:
When Instagram was first launched in
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The Real Story Behind Startups: It's Not All Glamour!
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I think this company became a hit initially only because there was no one in the market this company is irrelevant in today's time and it would be lifesaver for them to pivot from there nonsense business model. I don't understand what value investor