Growth starts when you admit your limits | Egor Korobeynikov (Superabundance, ex-Miro)
No Bullsh!t, July 23, 2025, 79 min, 1,183 views. Egor Korobeynikov, co-founder of a venture studio and the person who led the rebranding of a well-known collaboration product, talks about personal transformation through the lens of multiple identities: entrepreneur, father, athlete, musician and, most importantly, neurodivergent with diagnosed attention deficit disorder.
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| Length | 79 min |
| Views on YouTube | 1,183 |
| Language of the episode | Russian |
| Where to watch and listen | YouTube, Spotify, Telegram |
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In short
Egor goes through three key learning experiences from his time at the product company: not leaving a position in time once he had stopped being effective as the company grew exponentially, compensating for weaknesses instead of leaning on strengths, and not trusting his own intuition enough in a company that demanded numbers behind every decision. The conversation moves on to the business model of a venture studio and how the investment market is being rewritten by AI, and then to the jobs-to-be-done method.
Key ideas
- Three learning experiences: not leaving a role in time when he stopped growing with the company, compensating for weaknesses instead of leaning on strengths, and not trusting his own intuition.
- A diagnosis of attention deficit disorder became a tool rather than a limitation: he started building work and communication around his strengths instead of fighting his weaknesses.
- A venture studio differs from a fund: the studio builds companies from scratch together with founders rather than simply investing, and its share in the finished business varies widely.
- The investment market is being rewritten by AI: some companies reach previously unthinkable revenue within months while others lose their ground entirely.
- In the jobs-to-be-done method people do not hire a solution because they need a product, they hire it to make progress from one state to another, and the competition is not only similar products.
- A practical algorithm for finding a niche: look for an underserved and high-frequency job, score the problem by importance and satisfaction, and test the value through short experiments.
The full transcript
The episode is recorded in Russian, and the full transcript of the conversation is on the Russian page of this episode. English and Spanish subtitles for the strongest episodes are rolling out on YouTube in waves.
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