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Same Problem, Forever (The Anti-Pivot)
The problem stays constant. The technology stack changes underneath it. Founders should commit to a problem they would solve for life, not a feature.
How it works
- 1Health and wellness: reactive treatment 500 years ago, proactive screening 50 years ago, real-time wearables today, predictive prescriptive intervention tomorrow.
- 2The problem itself is permanent. The technology serving it is temporary.
- 3Pivoting at the feature layer is fine. Pivoting away from the core problem is surrender.
- 4Ask yourself: would I still work on this problem if AI made all my current technology obsolete?
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