if it is true that crypto found pmf through hyper-speculation, then it must also be true that airdrop farmers are real users who should be taken seriously
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powerful insight from Henri stern on the Dialectic pod with @jackson
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since quitting my job in Nov 2025, my view of software companies has changed a lot. if you're starting today, you CAN have lofty goals, skip VC funding, and stay lean. in 6 months building (2 months live), my co-founder and I have shipped things that used to require much larger teams. we start every week with a thesis. then we try to prove or disprove it by shipping code, marketing, doing BD, design, and support ourselves. the big shift is that job titles matter less now. a “job” was always just a bundle of tasks. AI has started unbundling those tasks, which means the old titles don’t map cleanly to what actually needs to get done anymore. founders have always worn many hats. but today, founders CAN and SHOULD go deep in any vertical necessary to prove their thesis about the market. this has been a hard fought lesson: as founders, you need to be able to ask the market, “is this good?” and parse the answer quickly.
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