Yu Bo: Founders chasing productivity miss the bigger opportunity — killing time
oran_ge · x · 2026-09-28
- Ant Group veteran Yu Bo (lifesinger) warns founders against being too busy: busyness breeds empathy with busy users, pushing them to build productivity tools.
- He argues the bigger opportunities are products that help people kill time — travel, mahjong, Douyin, X — some urban budget tours already run on "free entry, others pay."
- His framing: humanity is shifting from an era where diligence was survival-required into one where leisure must be faced seriously. "In the diligence era, efficiency is productivity; in the leisure era, what people have most is time."
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