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Jigar Shah
Jigar Shah

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What is the most underrated skill for startup founders in 2025?

Everyone says execution matters most.

But I think it’s execution in the right way
The kind that runs experiments, not marathons.

It’s easy to “move fast.”

It’s harder to design motion that actually teaches you something.

The best founders I’ve met don’t just build features but they build experiments:

  • test one variable at a time
  • measure feedback honestly
  • kill bad ideas fast

It’s not about doing more.

It’s about doing just enough to learn what’s worth doing next.

So if you ask me, the underrated skill isn’t execution

it’s experimental execution.

What’s yours?

What’s the boring but powerful skill that’s quietly shaped how you build?

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