Successful Founders Are OK With Rejection - Y Combinator  ## Metadata - Author: **Y Combinator** - Full Title: Successful Founders Are OK With Rejection - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/09656a65-9d1a-49f0-b7ab-377613c1fd95 ## Highlights - YC Founders Share Their Rookie Mistakes Key takeaways: • Founders should get in contact with potential and current users to get feedback early on in order to avoid making rookie mistakes. • It is important to be open to feedback and to not rely on only your own ideas when founding a company. Transcript: Speaker 1 Hey, this is Michael Sible with Dalton Caldwell. Welcome to Rookie Mistakes. We asked YC Founders for their rookie mistakes, so we could share them with you and help you avoid them. Here's the first mistake that was written in. In the beginning, when you're still from your idea or product, get in as many user or potential user calls as possible, at least one per day and ideally multiple. It seems obvious, but it's something that we personally failed at in the beginning. Don't brainstorm ideas in a silo. You don't know what people want. Speaker 2 We have all these ideas on our heads as founders about what people want, that the moment they are subjected to reality are embarrassingly wrong. Like there's nothing more humbling. There's nothing that makes you feel shittier than seeing real people using this thing that you ([Time 0:00:24](https://share.snipd.com/snip/6e0c32c2-8b4c-4839-9763-7c223955c119))