There are 3 Levels of Product-Market Fit.
🧩 Feature-Market Fit 🧩
💻 Product-Market Fit 💻
🌐 Platform-Market Fit 🌐
And many B2B founders try to skip to the last level...
🌐 Platform-Market Fit 🌐
"We're building a platform to revolutionize X industry"
"We're building a platform for Y teams"
"We're building a platform for Z technology"
❌ This approach is fundamentally flawed.
Platform-Market Fit is actually a collection of multiple products having fit in the market.
And we can all agree that finding product-market fit with a single product is extremely difficult.
👉 What makes you think you can find multiple fits — at the same time?
Imagine if Stripe would have taken this approach...
We're building "Financial Infrastructure for the Internet" with a collection of products...
🙅♂️ They would have failed miserably.
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So if you're an early stage founder who wants to build a platform?✅ Start by finding fit with a single feature.
Ben Wilentz
Founder, Stealth Startup