Why Brilliant Founders Bury Their Own Products


Your instinct to add more is EXACTLY what makes buyers hesitate. Not long ago I presented a Go-to-Market Roadmap to a fascinating founder. Genuinely brilliant. Original thinker. A rare kind of builder. And yet every question he asked pushed the messaging toward more complexity. More angles. More layers. More value props stacked like geological strata. Wherever we achieved clarity, his impulses pulled us back into ever-deeper fog. It was a perfect live demonstration of how products bloat. Not...