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Lenny's Podcast · Apr 18

Lessons from 1,000+ YC startups: Resilience, tar pit ideas, pivoting, more | Dalton Caldwell (YC)

Its Stanford dropout founders were ashamed of the idea and knew nothing about optics. Dalton called it the likely worst company in the batch before it pivoted into Brex.

Tips

• Pivot toward what you already know, not away from it▶ 15:35Brex was a VR headset startup and Retool was a P2P payments app called Cashew; both pivoted toward domains the founders knew and became huge.