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Jan 30, 2017

You've made an impressive product, with a breakthrough concept.

While you're building this awesome thing there's a lot of people, though enthusiastic, that are flooding you with new requests, from doable to totally out of zeit's world.

How do you guys cope with that? Do you stay true to your initial idea or are considering disrupting part of the roadmap?

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Guillermo Rauch

CEO at ▲ZEIT

Jan 30, 2017

This is definitely one of the most important battles to fight. Saying "no" is difficult yet absolutely critical. It can even result in anxiety in the short term because you think you might be missing out.

My coping mechanism is to remind myself of the very fundamental underlying challenges and opportunities that very few companies, if any, have been able to optimally solve, even with the existing subset of functionality.

There's a whole universe to be explored within these constraints.

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