Did same thing in Meiro, totally behind this. It is harder than it looks, I mean everyone knows the pivot playbook, but going against the grain I'm your company means a lot of conflict with people you love and that's hard.
The part that stands out is 'frontier labs attacking your territory' as a PMF threat, not just a competitive one. That's a different kind of pressure than the usual two-person-team scrappy startup risk, because a frontier lab can make your entire product category redundant with a feature ship, not a competing product. Are you treating those as the same threat with the same response, or does PostHog have a separate playbook for 'the market disappears' versus 'someone builds it better'?
Absolute banger of a post
Did same thing in Meiro, totally behind this. It is harder than it looks, I mean everyone knows the pivot playbook, but going against the grain I'm your company means a lot of conflict with people you love and that's hard.
The part that stands out is 'frontier labs attacking your territory' as a PMF threat, not just a competitive one. That's a different kind of pressure than the usual two-person-team scrappy startup risk, because a frontier lab can make your entire product category redundant with a feature ship, not a competing product. Are you treating those as the same threat with the same response, or does PostHog have a separate playbook for 'the market disappears' versus 'someone builds it better'?