Making Startups Powerful
Global
Tech
Moderate confidence — 64/100
- September 2026One of the most useful heuristics I have when doing office hours with startups is to ask: what would make this company more powerful?
- Asking how the company could make more money is a good heuristic too, but it tends to yield incremental improvements.
- Whereas thinking about how to make it more powerful will sometimes make it orders of magnitude more valuable.
Confirmed
- September 2026One of the most useful heuristics I have when doing office hours with startups is to ask: what would make this company more powerful?
- Asking how the company could make more money is a good heuristic too, but it tends to yield incremental improvements.
- Whereas thinking about how to make it more powerful will sometimes make it orders of magnitude more valuable.