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Gaurav Misra

03/27/25

@ Lenny's Podcast

Taking on strategic technical debt is essential for startups to outpace larger companies.

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How to win in the AI era: Ship weekly, embrace technical debt, ruthlessly cut scope, and more

@ Lenny's Podcast

How to win in the AI era: Ship weekly, embrace technical debt, ruthlessly cut scope, and more

03/27/25

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GM

Gaurav Misra

03/27/25

@ Lenny's Podcast

As a startup, your job is to take on technical debt, which allows you to operate faster than larger companies that typically pay off their technical debt immediately.

YC

Y Combinator Cast

04/22/23

@ Y Combinator

As a technical founder, you need to balance building new features with fixing bugs and addressing technical debt, especially as you approach product-market fit.

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Diana Hu

08/28/19

@ Y Combinator

Taking advantage of high-leverage activities that larger companies might avoid can be a key strategy for startups to differentiate themselves.

YC

Y Combinator Cast

04/12/24

@ Y Combinator

Hard tech founders must break down their problems into manageable steps to demonstrate their ability to take on risks progressively.

YC

Y Combinator Cast

04/12/24

@ Y Combinator

Hard tech founders must build a financial viability plan and demonstrate they can achieve technical milestones, even on a smaller scale.

YC

Y Combinator Cast

04/22/23

@ Y Combinator

It's okay to have technical debt in the early stages; many successful products, like Pokémon Go, launched with significant issues but still thrived.

CR

Chad Rigetti

09/30/16

@ Y Combinator

Hard tech startups face unique challenges, including operating in undefined arenas without well-developed supply chains, requiring them to develop all necessary building blocks for their technology.

AM

Apoorva Mehta

06/20/14

@ Y Combinator

YC encourages startups to do things unscalably at the beginning, which is a significant competitive advantage over larger companies.

YC

Y Combinator Cast

11/06/24

@ Y Combinator

Being technical is still strategic; having a technical co-founder is incredibly important in today's landscape.