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Shipping early can reveal when expert advice is wrong
Shipping early can reveal when expert advice is wrong
Baszucki recalls that Roblox shipped its simple early avatar despite widespread objections, allowing actual user feedback to test assumptions instead of relying exclusively on industry opinion.
- Speaker
- David Baszucki
- Topic
- Product Iteration
- Source timestamp
- 11:56
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