Michael Seibel is a partner and the CEO of YC. He cofounded Justin.tv, which was in the winter 2007 batch and Socialcam, which was in the winter 2012 batch.   / mwseibel  

In this video Michael comments on his essay The Real Product Market Fit https://blog.ycombinator.com/thereal...

The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon   / craigcannon  

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Topics

00:00 The Real Product Market Fit

1:00 Why do many founders think they have product market fit when they don’t?

5:45 Building a successful company is not a single variable problem

7:30 Socialcam didn’t hit product market fit

8:40 Justin.tv had $1M in profit before reaching product market fit

12:30 Some companies take a long time