Simple Products That Became Big Companies – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel

Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel talk about OpenSea, Gusto, and the importance of building simple products that solve a real problem.

To create Rookies Mistakes we asked YC founders: Is there a simple fact you wish you knew when you started your company or a rookie mistake you wish you could take back?

Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) -
00:00 - Rookie Mistakes
00:42 - Note from YC founder
01:02 - Boiling the ocean
02:00 - Googlitis
02:32 - OpenSea
04:33 - Gusto
05:34 - Having lots of features is infinitely worse than having one that works all right
06:26 - Note from YC founder
07:04 - Blank for X - Fail after getting money
07:22 - Validation
09:06 - First principles
10:05 - Ground Truth Answers
12:06 - Clear thinking
13:21 - Discipline
15:40 - Hardware crowdfunding
19:21 - Hardware startup - Best practices