As someone who does professional customer discovery and PMF--never underestimate demographic waves, especially enormous ones like that of Gen Y (and secondly, the Boomers). In a sense these are like "you will receive a porcupine sometime in the next five years"...but in the meantime you are living in a society full of people who opened their porcupine box already.
In my mid-fifties, I'm old enough finally to see that history does indeed rhyme. The issues the Millennials are facing today are very similar to the ones that Boomers faced in the early 80s--first real jobs, deep-seated dissent at really learning the differences between reality and what they'd expected as young adults, thinking about houses and kids. It's a mindset, with the proviso that people in the mindset are often the last to see the banal bits, and the banal bits end up being "what it's like."
As someone who does professional customer discovery and PMF--never underestimate demographic waves, especially enormous ones like that of Gen Y (and secondly, the Boomers). In a sense these are like "you will receive a porcupine sometime in the next five years"...but in the meantime you are living in a society full of people who opened their porcupine box already.
In my mid-fifties, I'm old enough finally to see that history does indeed rhyme. The issues the Millennials are facing today are very similar to the ones that Boomers faced in the early 80s--first real jobs, deep-seated dissent at really learning the differences between reality and what they'd expected as young adults, thinking about houses and kids. It's a mindset, with the proviso that people in the mindset are often the last to see the banal bits, and the banal bits end up being "what it's like."
Amazing… I am wondering if one can do an animated start up series about building a startup. And it should be in Japenese