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EPISODE · Mar 2, 2026 · 48 MIN

Raise & Exit 31 Steve Patti: Protecting Product-Market Fit

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🚀Protecting Product-Market Fit | Raise & Exit What if your customers are the reason you’re losing focus? 🤯 In this episode, we unpack a hard truth every founder needs to hear: 👉 Customer requests don’t always mean you should change your product. When you start adding features just to satisfy isolated demands, your product can slowly lose its essence. And when users don’t deeply value what you already built… it might not be a feature problem ; it might be a fit problem. In this conversation we explore: ⚡ Why real product-market fit feels obvious 🎯 How adding “just one more feature” can dilute your value 🧠 Why discipline in product is a competitive advantage 🚫 When a request signals the wrong customer — not the wrong roadmap If you’re building at pre-seed, seed, or scaling stage, this episode will challenge how you think about growth and focus. Because sometimes, the smartest move is not building more… it’s protecting what already works. 💡

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🚀Protecting Product-Market Fit | Raise & Exit What if your customers are the reason you’re losing focus? 🤯 In this episode, we unpack a hard truth every founder needs to hear: 👉 Customer requests don’t always mean you should change your product. When you start adding features just to satisfy isolated demands, your product can slowly lose its essence. And when users don’t deeply value what you already built… it might not be a feature problem ; it might be a fit problem. I...

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