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Podcast: The CTO Show with Mehmet Gonullu
Episode: #561 Fall in Love With the Problem, Not the Product: Ghazenfer Mansoor on Why Startups Fail
Description: In this episode, Mehmet sits down with Ghazenfer Mansoor, Founder and CEO of Technology Rivers, to unpack why so many software products fail quietly and what actually separates ideas that ship and scale from those that die early.Drawing on two decades of experience and over 60 shipped applications, Ghazenfer shares hard-earned lessons on customer discovery, feature bloat, technical debt, AI with real ROI, and building system-powered businesses that scale sustainably, especially in regulated industries like healthcare.This is a practical, no-fluff conversation for founders, CTOs, and operators building real...