When building gets cheap, scope creep is the new enemy

Antonio Nguyen, building Quant100, answers "Which assumption just broke?" on 2026-10-13.

Entrepreneurship is the future. AI has given us the tools to build anything we need and anything we ever wanted. But the problem with that is something called scope creep. When you have the power to build everything you want, anything you want, and the the amount to... The ability to build something becomes so cheap, there is a psychological thing called scope creep where you overbuild and you build way more than you should have. And creating an amazing product, either it's an app or a platform or any product at all, the more features you load up into it, the worse it becomes. It really is the fact that the more you have, the the worse it gets, basically, because, like, then you will try to drown yourself and drown the product and overwhelm it and clutter when the beauty of any product is that it solves one pain point, solve a problem very well. And to become successful in any business or any startup, you have to be really good at solving one pain point, one problem better than anyone else, and people can understand that. Because we're we're simple creatures. We don't want things complicated. We want things simple. And an amazing product and an amazing company allows you to make a very complicated task as simple as anything. That is true entrepreneurship, and that's gonna be the future.

All of Antonio Nguyen's takes

View this page on Quant100