“If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your first product, you’ve launched too late,” said LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman in 2009. While Silicon Valley is full of stock phrases about how to successfully grow a company, Hoffman gets to the heart of one of the entrepreneurial dilemmas — the growth versus product conundrum.
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