In this episode of Startup School, YC General Partner Jon Xu explains how juggling multiple ideas produces bad data, and why picking one idea and going deep on it is the better strategy for aspiring founders.
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Chapters:
00:00 — Intro
00:59 — The "Perfect Idea" trap
02:42 — Why working on multiple ideas fails
03:21 — How to actually go deep
04:51 — Could you run your customer’s business?
06:18 — Build at the edge of what AI can do
08:37 — Aim at the most ambitious version
09:33 — What happens when the idea fails
10:27 — Walk fast in one direction
