Do we need a product to solve a problem?
- Event Name : WikiStage PantheonSorbonne 1
- 16.07.2017
"I really believe that people today are not just the fuel of innovation, but they are the starting point and the focus of it. And we are reversing the relationship between technology and people while building great products."
"I feel that we think that with a software you can do anything that a human could do, but not as good."
"When I was a student I decided to build a market place to solve student’s needs like finding an apartment, an internship, a job, books etc. So, I built up a team and we spent months building what we thought and hoped would be a very beautiful application, with loads of features, categories, and we put it into the hands of a few students, and we observed them. So whenever a student would put on a request like I’m looking for this book‘, what we would do as a team was to try and bring them a solution. And this is where we actually created value. It was not by putting an interface into their hands. It was actually by solving their problems.“
"Think about it this way. Like what do you actually prefer? Open a beautiful app, or actually finding a job to pay for your holidays. It is as simple as this."
"If you want to scale an innovation technology is obviously the best way to do it, but if you want to build a meaningful innovation, you can just start with the asset you know best – you."