Ep. 41 - Differentiating vs. table-stakes features, MLP vs. MVP, YC application

What features do you build first - table stakes or what makes you differentiated? What's the difference between an MVP and an MLP? Is it worth applying to YC? ...and a few recommendations of books and podcasts that we're into these days.

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Segments

• [03:59] Differentiating features vs. table stakes features

• [07:16] MVP vs. MLP [14:18] The MAYA principle

• [17:15] We applied to YC

• [23:49] Building a landing page with Carrd

• [26:40] Chaos engineering for customer empathy

• [32:14] The Three-Body Problem trilogy

• [35:46] Elon Musk's biography

• [39:08] Blackberry

• [41:55] Podcasts we listen to

• [45:18] Remembering Reply-All