From a Founder’s Perspective: Building Products Customers Truly Want

The Allure and Pitfall of Cutting-Edge Innovation

Eric Fung
7 min readJun 17, 2024

As a founder, your primary goal is to create products that resonate with your target audience and provide real value. However, the tech industry has seen a troubling trend: an overemphasis on cutting-edge innovation at the expense of addressing actual customer needs. This disconnect can lead to the development of products that, while technologically impressive, fail to solve real problems for consumers and businesses. In this…

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Eric Fung

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