- Alex Ruber and his cofounder, Parth Chopra, entered YC’s fall 2024 batch with an AI shopping tool.
- After running at a loss, they pivoted through five to six ideas before finding success.
- He said their biggest mistake during the search for a winning app was how they handled pivots.
Instead of picking a problem space we really love, trying our solution, and, if it didn’t work, switching to a different solution, we kept switching industries. We lost our passion for what we were building as we did that.
My advice would be to pick the problem space and not change it very easily. How you approach that problem is what you should be changing.
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