“While I did heed the advice eventually, I can say with certainty not doing so sooner is my biggest regret. It’s easy to be drawn to the allure of stories where founders didn’t listen to advice and benefited from it, and I was definitely guilty of that. It clouded my judgment.”— Kevin Gibbon, linkedin.com
“Then, things changed. Consumer growth slowed. People close to me and the business began to warn that chasing consumers was the wrong strategy. After all, how often do consumers ship things? I didn’t listen.”— Kevin Gibbon, linkedin.com
“At the time, I approached everything I did as an engineer. Rather than change direction, I tasked the team with expanding geographically and dreaming up innovative features and growth tactics to further penetrate the consumer market.”— Kevin Gibbon, linkedin.com