Panel: How to shorten founder-product fit and product-market fit process
Every founder knows the pain: months—or years—of building, pivoting, and second‑guessing before the market finally says “yes.” What if that journey could be meaningfully shortened? What if founder–product fit and product–market fit weren’t discovered by trial and error alone, but engineered with intention?
In this panel, we bring together two radically different—but complementary—perspectives. Darius Chang has spent his career shaping products and narratives across consumer tech, datacenters, fintech, and hospitality, helping teams translate complex products into clear market demand. Joining him is Sam Ker, a founder based in Japan who is quite literally building the future—working on a flying car, where the cost of getting product–market fit wrong isn’t just time or money, but physics, regulation, and safety.
Together, they’ll unpack how founders can compress learning cycles, align personal conviction with real customer pain, and identify the signals that matter early—whether you’re shipping software, scaling platforms, or redefining transportation itself. This conversation isn’t about theory; it’s about practical shortcuts, hard-earned lessons, and how to avoid building the right product for the wrong market—or the wrong product for yourself.
