Take care
People showing up at some website, they don’t care about it as much as you — the founders — care about it.
What you [should] care about is the person who shows up randomly [...] and has their finger poised over the Back button. Because think how many websites you visit everyday. Most of them are no good. You click on Back and go on with your life.
So you’re designing your website for the guy who’s just about to leave. Who’s just on the cusp of even caring [about] what you do. You know what your website does. But he doesn’t. He doesn’t even care that much. So you have to tell him.
— Paul Graham in an interview on Mixergy
5 comments
Kirsten Winkler February 12, 2010
Great stuff. You should try to do this with every episode!
chris rhee February 12, 2010
@Andrew: Thanks for the tweet and for all the hours of interviews! You’re on top of things: that has to be the fastest blog comment I’ve ever received.
Ben Atkin February 12, 2010
I like the quote, too. Thanks for digging it up!
Andrew Warner February 12, 2010
Wow! What a great quote. I forgot he said that!
Thanks.