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Recorded this at 5AM after losing my phone. Couldn't sleep.

The thesis: every early-stage startup needs one person who is both responsible for the outcome and has the right to make the final call. Not consensus. Not a vote.

The group decision argument sounds reasonable — more knowledge, more guardrails. But under real pressure, self-interest dominates. And when nobody owns the outcome, nobody cleans up the mess. After my last startup wound down I spent over a year returning $1M to stakeholders as a volunteer. Everyone else had moved on. That's what ownership actually looks like.

I think of it as a trust test. One person has to be willing to hold full liability. The other has to trust that person's judgment and integrity enough to give them the final call. Not all co-founder relationships can do that — and the ones that can't eventually blow up.

Curious if others have seen this play out differently, especially in cases where consensus-based structures actually worked long-term.

I'm definitely aware the kind of thing you're talking. We're lucky that with our solution, we deal more with retailers than designer brands. So far it's been not that bad for us.

Curious what's the name of company you are at?

Gotya, we'll check that. The selections are some time pretty random, since we have a large model pool.

They wouldn't be our competitor on B2B, more like a user of this tech. They might have it at some point (either through us or in house), but only available for merchants on their platform.

haha yeah, there's a lot of nuance about a fitting room that's hard for 1 product to solve. Our current product focus more on the styling / outfits / engagement, not claiming on the exact fit. Hopefully it brings positive value to conversion and AOV, which would be enough to justify a B2B case. We've also build an app (Style Space), but are not experts in running it.

Yeah, it's slowly getting there but hard to reach 100% so will need QA to touch up for a long time. But the hybrid approach gets better rendering than photoshop vendor image (at least shopper have difficult spotting).

You right, we don't handle fitting at the moment. It's difficult bc most e-commerce don't have diverse body shape model and many other reasons. We are working on it, will take some time for sure.

Haha yeah, photoshoots are definitely not the first thing in our mind, but seems like there's real need for it.