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If I had a dollar for every time a founder has told me ‘<em>if I’d trusted my instinct, I’d have done it this other way and not screwed things up</em>” I would be rich by now. This becomes even more confusing when it’s product decisions. Especially when, after all your customer discovery conversations, the product the customer is asking for does not satisfy the need your gut tells you that the user has. What I suggest to the founders in these instances is that they trust their gut and build a product that serves the user as the product team believes it should. I know ‘<a href="https://medium.com/@seyi_fab/is-it-time-to-dump-the-lean-startup-approach-4eb6be23c941" target="_blank">lean startup folk</a>’ will hate my guts for this but I don’t just offer this idea lightly, I practice what I preach.