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Wartime before product-market fit

Wartime before product-market fit

Reflections on Ben Horowtiz's essay in relation to Product Market Fit

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Josh Lachkovic
May 18, 2023
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Midway through my career I worked for a business which was going through multiple successive years of decline. I remember doing analysis to understand whether our share of market was decreasing or the market itself. The answer was both. Less pie, but we were losing at a faster rate. I got a few of the leadership on board with the idea of Wartime.

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