The only thing that matters for startups, according to Marc Andreessen

"Ironically, once a startup is successful, and you ask the founders what made it successful, they will usually cite all kinds of things that had nothing to do with it. People are terrible at understanding causation. But in almost every case, the cause was actually product/market fit."

I found this via Sean Ellis' Startup Pyramid article, and it's only available via the web archive. Definitely worth reading.

This is what I am spending almost all my time on right now, and losing sleep too :) I know just how important it is.

Are you working on something other than product/market fit when you haven't got to product/market fit yet?

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