I think if you're a founder out there today
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RICK: You have to, you absolutely have to. And that's where we go back to that, we're iterating up for favors, we're iterating for features. And when you go from product market fit to the platform and you start to look at the marketplace, see that's a completely different type of expertise and skill and you can't take it light and say, oh, let's just netherlands phone number whatsapp replicate what Amazon did. Let's just [email protected] let's look at REI. Well, that's not a B2B experience. And so there aren't 50people lining up saying, we know how to do B2B eCommerce because our B2B eCommerce can take you to a cart. The current experts are B2B click to demo, B2B, click to interview or click to salesperson. I wanna go B2B click to cart and they're like, oh, you mean B2C? I'm like, no. B2B is going down the same route. And there aren't 50people lining up saying, that's what we do today. So we're a little bit early. It feels like the early days of Field Agent and with this platform market fit.
NICK: Yeah. No, I'm really excited to see you guys roll this out. You mentioned a few times kind of your different business philosophies, different kind of strains of thought that have affected, or maybe have helped you influence your decision making over the years. What are some of these sort of skills that you had to teach yourself to really get to this point?
RICK: and you've already started or you're working for the man and you're trying to get out and you've got these great ideas in your head, I learned early on, and if I look at where I think we've been successful, is that we've done a really good job creating rails and staying within the rails. And what I mean by that is one of the worst things you can do as an entrepreneur is to chase shiny objects. It's just, you do not have the time, the money, the resources to go chase, chase, chase. Now within rails, you can be completely creative and chase a bunch of shiny objects within the rails. But when you say, yeah, my product is this, and here's my focus, and I start changing just to chase money and chas
NICK: Yeah. No, I'm really excited to see you guys roll this out. You mentioned a few times kind of your different business philosophies, different kind of strains of thought that have affected, or maybe have helped you influence your decision making over the years. What are some of these sort of skills that you had to teach yourself to really get to this point?
RICK: and you've already started or you're working for the man and you're trying to get out and you've got these great ideas in your head, I learned early on, and if I look at where I think we've been successful, is that we've done a really good job creating rails and staying within the rails. And what I mean by that is one of the worst things you can do as an entrepreneur is to chase shiny objects. It's just, you do not have the time, the money, the resources to go chase, chase, chase. Now within rails, you can be completely creative and chase a bunch of shiny objects within the rails. But when you say, yeah, my product is this, and here's my focus, and I start changing just to chase money and chas