Book: Pattern Breakers

Last updated: September 11, 2024

Pattern Breakers is an entrepreneurship book written after ChatGPT moment.

It argues that founders might fail just by looking at markets with whitespace. The hypothesis-driven approach argued by Lean Startups is replaced with Insights & Inflection driven methodology.

  • Inflection: like harnessing the power of wave, makes your idea powerful.
  • Insights: like unconventional wisdom, makes your idea unique.

The book argues building a throw-away prototype to validate your insights. aka. the inflection stress test. It argues it's different from building MVPs. In my view, whether implementation prototype or MVP, they are just ways to test the hypothesis and hence belongs to the lean startup philosophy of failing fast.

"Pattern Breakers" essentially touches the classic ideas in entrepreneurship, but presented in a way relevant to today's inflection point: AGI.

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