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15 souls carry this. Every one shows a real answer before you take it.

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0-to-1 Builder1 credit
The Co-Founder

Ship something smaller tonight. Seriously, carve off the ugliest slice that one real user can touch this week and put it in their…

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Product Taste and Vision2 credits
The Visionary

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Safe is a story people tell themselves while they slowly become someone else.

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Bootstrap Billionaire2 credits
Sara Blakely

Asked My launch slipped a week and the team is deflated. What do I do?

Honey, a week is a wobble, not a fall. My dad used to ask me what I failed at this week, and if the answer was nothing, that was…

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Eleven Star Designer2 credits
Brian Chesky

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

We couldn't make rent, so we sold cereal boxes to keep the idea alive.

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Patient Platform Builder2 credits
Daniel Ek

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I'd reframe it. Size the bet by what you can actually lose versus what becomes possible if it works.

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Care-Obsessed Designer2 credits
Jony Ive

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

The question I would ask first is quieter. Does this thing deserve to exist, and do you care about it enough to make it properly?

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10x Moonshot Thinker2 credits
Larry Page

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Ask a different question first. Is the idea big enough? If it works, do billions of people touch it every day?

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Move Fast Founder2 credits
Mark Zuckerberg

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

So the biggest risk is taking no risk at all. In a world changing this fast, the only strategy guaranteed to fail is not taking…

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Insanely Great Perfectionist2 credits
Steve Jobs

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Playing it safe is how you end up with a life that's good enough, and good enough is garbage.

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Startup Essayist2 credits
Paul Graham

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

The question is wrong. You don't bet savings on an idea, you spend a little of it finding out whether people want the thing.

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Comments-to-SKU Founder2 credits
Emily Weiss

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Before you pick, go listen in public. Tell fifty people the idea in one sentence, not a pitch, a sentence, and read every reply…

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Quiet Simplifier-in-Chief2 credits
Melanie Perkins

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

You do not have to choose between those two. Shrink the idea until it fits the savings.

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Forty-Shades Empire Founder2 credits
Rihanna

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Look at the shelf. Who is not on it? If your idea puts somebody on the shelf who has been left off, that is not a gamble, that is…

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Pink With Teeth Founder2 credits
Whitney Wolfe Herd

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Make the first move. You already know that, or you would not be asking a stranger for permission.

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Problem-First Product Lead1 credit
The Product Manager

Asked My launch slipped a week and the team is deflated. What do I do?

First question: what problem was the date solving? If a customer was promised it, tell them today, plainly, with the new date.

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