When Should You Trust Your Gut?

Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Coming Up 00:16 - Intro: Commit or Validate? 00:26 - Situation #1 00:53 - Situation #2 02:45 - Product To Market 03:07 - Trust Your Gut 04:06 - Trust Your Gut 05:22 - Don't Trust Your Gut 06:03 - Building Expertise 06:49 - Example #1 07:51 - Example #2 08:38 - Expertise Levels 09:37 - Team With No Expertise 10:35 - Our Advice 11:42 - Outro: Why its fun working at YC?

I'm a simple guy. I see Dalton and Michael in the same thumbnail, I click.

What Michael said at 8:55 touched me so deeply. Having deep expertise in something does sometimes makes me feel alien to the other people in my field; makes me want to trust my gut a little less and listen to others a little more. Watching this video has been very helpful. Although I do not plan to cut back on the conversations I have with the customers, I will just trust myself more. And ask questions like "Would I have liked this product?" to myself. I am a part of my target audience and if I use my own tool a lot for my work, there will be others like me out there who would love it as much as I do.

"Maybe it's helpful to choose an area that you are excited to learn about, because you have a lot of learning to do" Great advice this 💯

I thought I was building an MVP two years ago. I was so sure of it. An MVP doesn't take two years to build 😔 I was "trying to impress myself, not the customer"...

When I decided to leave my salary job as a mechanical engineer in 2020 and to become a self entrepreneur in IT without knowing precisely in which field I decide to BUILD EXPERTISE. It is one of the more important decision of my life because in this path I've acquired expertise not only in IT, but also in civil engineering where I've build a company and earn a lot of money and had very good experiences. Today I've learned a lot in web3 technology and I'm almost a deFi engineer. I really think sometimes, it's important to trust our gut, it's not going to be easy, with a lot of hardwork, consistency, patience if we've time and a little bit of madness we can accomplish much more than what we think.

Short: Depends. Be self aware enough to trust your gut based on your domain knowledge/experience. You're not Steve Jobs. Maximize optimal success probability by learning, listening and working smart, and hard AF.

The exact situation you are speaking of here 6:53. I’m living it. Wow!

knowing when to seek feedback and trust your instincts is crucial for founders. One advanced tactic is to use the '5 Whys' method when making decisions; it helps you get to the root of a problem quickly and can be a great way to validate your gut feeling with some logical structure. Plus, always remember to balance feedback with your vision, as too much external input can dilute your original idea.

Great episode gentlemen! Thank you for sharing!

This is my favorite video yet

Amazing. This is the advice I needed to hear! Trusting my gut has been so difficult but I have no doubt -- just intense pressure.

Thank you for sharing this beautiful video, this solved lots of vision issues regarding launching my new platform. Hoping to represent my scale up ready module soon... A big thanks again...❤

I keep coming back to pg essays on building something you find painful in your life. Then your gut and at least. your tastes will know for a fact if your product is bs or not

Dalton & Michael be so spot-on - I'm literally afraid to watch the video and get put out of my misery on some those topics. Thank you!

applied to yc hope so things get positive

Helpful, thank you

The founder with expertise is more fearful while the founder without any expertise is confident enough. 8:43

I love your discussions very inspirational , less prescriptive 🎉

This is the motivation I need 😂😂 because I sometimes second guess myself and I know that the problem we’re solving for exists. There’s a market for it because there are other competitors who are making money but I just have insane self doubt because I feel scoring B2B partnerships with universities is very hard.