- Caring about customers is beneficial for learning, making sales, and enjoying the work.
- Customers can sense if you genuinely care and will be more open about their problems.
- Showing care and a desire to solve problems builds trust and understanding with customers.

It really helps to care about your customers.

And if you can use that as a tool, you'll learn more, you'll make more sales, you'll have more fun.

And people can tell if you care, they'll wanna tell you more about their problems.

They'll give you the benefit of the doubt, they'll cut you slack.

If they can tell that you care and that you want to actually solve their problems and not just get money, raise VC dollars.


Speaker 0: It really helps to care about your customers. And if you can use that as a tool, you'll learn more, you'll make more sales, you'll have more fun. And people can tell if you care, they'll wanna tell you more about their problems. They'll give you the benefit of the doubt, they'll cut you slack. If they can tell that you care and that you want to actually solve their problems and not just get money, raise VC dollars.

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Simply caring about customers is how you give your startup a competitive advantage.