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Siddharth K Nair

Thatmoonemojiguy 🌝 • 21h

HOW MISCOMMUNICATION BETWEEN USERS AND FOUNDERS DESTROYS EMPIRES ⚠️ TO FOUNDERS: This could be you!!. In April 2020, Quibi launched with $1.75 billion and Hollywood royalty behind it. Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman promised to revolutionize mobile entertainment with "quick bites" of premium content. Six months later? Dead. Gone. The fastest billion-dollar burial in startup history. The $1.75 Billion Deaf Ear Quibi didn't fail because of bad tech or market timing. It failed because two brilliant founders built exactly what *they* wanted while systematically ignoring what users were screaming for. Fatal Mistake #1: The Mobile Prison Users begged to watch on TVs, especially during lockdown. Quibi's response? They literally coded restrictions preventing TV viewing. While Netflix dominated living rooms, Quibi insisted everyone watch Hollywood-quality shows on 6-inch screens. Fatal Mistake #2: The Anti-Social Network In the TikTok era, Quibi banned sharing clips or screenshots. No memes, no viral moments, no word-of-mouth growth. They built a video platform designed to prevent videos from spreading. It's like opening a restaurant and forbidding customers from recommending it. Fatal Mistake #3: Feedback Paralysis When engagement tanked and users fled, internal reports show Katzenberg and Whitman locked in heated debates about pivoting. While they argued in boardrooms, the competition stole their market. The Billion-Dollar Echo Chamber Here's your warning, founders: Success breeds deafness. When you're swimming in funding and press coverage, user complaints become background noise. Quibi spent $100 million on marketing to attract users to a product those same users were telling them to fix. Sound familiar? Google+ ignored how people actually socialize. Segway built revolutionary tech nobody wanted on sidewalks. Theranos insisted their broken technology worked. The pattern is always the same: Brilliant people solving problems that exist mainly in boardrooms. When Empires Crumble History's lesson is brutal: Empires fall from communication breakdown, not external attacks. Blockbuster had every advantage over Netflix - until they didn't listen. BlackBerry owned mobile email - until they ignored smartphones. Kodak invented digital photography - then watched others profit from it. "Empires aren't destroyed by enemies. They're undone by silence inside their own walls." Reality Check The most dangerous phrase in any startup isn't "we're running out of money." It's "users just don't understand what we're building yet." Quibi had the insight (premium short-form content), the money ($1.75B), and the talent (Hollywood A-listers). They lost because TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts listened to what users actually wanted while Quibi built golden handcuffs. Money can't buy you ears. Connections can't substitute for conversations. All the brilliant strategy in the world means nothing if you're strategizing in a vacuum. Founders: If you're building something today, forget the money and hype. Ask yourself: Are you really listening? Your users are talking. The question is whether you're hearing them or just waiting for your turn to speak. feel like u need to tag some founders ? tag them , let them know , so that their startup dont face the same fall ... 😌🌝

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