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. https://twitter.com/mwseibel

In this video Michael comments on his essay The Real Product Market Fit https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-real-product-market-fit/

The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon - https://twitter.com/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