Interesting take, but I'd push back a little. the way startups launch has shifted because the underlying economics of attention have changed. Ten years ago you could throw a Facebook post at a narrow demographic and see traction. now the average cost per click has doubled in most verticals, and the platforms have deliberately made it harder to target without spending big. That's not subjective - it's baked into the quarterly earnings calls of Meta and Google.
If anything, the startups I see succeeding today are the ones that treat launch like a long-form documentary, not a product page. they build the story first, then sell. The old "here's our MVP, buy now" model doesn't cut it when everyone's scrolling past with their thumb hovering over the skip button.
So maybe the opinion has more weight than it first seems. depends on whose data you're looking at.
