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The meme humorously critiques the idea that marketing can save a bad product, using a bell curve to show most founders (the peak) mistakenly believe their subpar products need 'marketing fixes,' while a tiny fraction recognize they should be building amazing products that go viral organically like Facebook or Tesla.

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Marketing is for startups who have a bad product