What's the worst advice you ever got?

Monil Shah
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We've all heard good advice here and there, but curious to see if any of y'all have gotten really bad advice in your respective careers? I'll start -> During my first internship, my manager told me to never question him. As a naive 17-year-old, I followed it to the book and executed campaigns that had no clear goals. Needless to say, we didn't generate many (if any) returns. Since then, I've made it a point to not be afraid of authority and not assume that someone is right just because they're in a higher position than me.

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Junior Owolabi
build a crappy MVP then start speaking to customers
Monil Shah
@rilwan_owolabi1 Ha! That's interesting. Did you try this advice and fail? Or is experience telling you now that this is bad advice?
Junior Owolabi
@monil_shah2 tried it and failed, I heard it from the ycombinator lectures
Monil Shah
@rilwan_owolabi1 I see! I've never heard of these lectures but I'll definitely check them out!