Founders always have the urge to find shortcuts around things. That’s actually a strong sign of entrepreneurial spirit. But, it’s only a skill, just like any other skill. It can’t be used to get around everything in entrepreneurship.
The last few days in startup twitter-verse have been dominated by one man - Soham Parekh. He’s an engineer from India who took up multiple parallel jobs at YC startups, and moonlighted. Basically, he took up jobs at each of these startups and didn’t properly contribute to anyone. All the rewards, and none of the risk.
Youtube is the second largest search engine in the world. Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and other social media platforms are all video first. LinkedIn too has a video first strategy.