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Product & Building

MVP

Also: Minimum Viable Product

The smallest thing you can build to test whether customers actually want what you think they want.

Why it matters

The point is learning, not polish — an MVP that teaches you you're wrong has done its job.

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Episodes on Product

How Do You Sell Software to an Industry That Won't Change? Mitchell Baker on Claimstack

Pick My Brain with Alan Jones · 14 July 2026

How Do You Sell Software to an Industry That Won't Change? Mitchell Baker on Claimstack
What's Your Moat When AI Can Copy Your Product in 48 Hours? | Dilip Jacob from Pitchberry

Pick My Brain with Alan Jones · 7 July 2026

What's Your Moat When AI Can Copy Your Product in 48 Hours? | Dilip Jacob from Pitchberry
"AI Should Bring Us Closer Together, Not Make Us More Lonely" with Akshay Kothari Co-Founder of Notion

In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy · 19 June 2026

"AI Should Bring Us Closer Together, Not Make Us More Lonely" with Akshay Kothari Co-Founder of Notion
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Related terms

Product-market fit

The point where you've built something a market genuinely wants and pulls out of you faster than you can supply it.

Pivot

A deliberate change of direction — product, market or model — while keeping what you've learned.

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