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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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A three-panel anime-style meme showing a character pointing at an empty tray, then gesturing over the tray with text "30 MINUTES OF MARKETING", and finally two characters standing outside with one saying "$1 Million MRR please".
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A two-panel cartoon showing a man's head floating in water with 'No clients', 'No traffic', and 'No revenue' text labels around him, transitioning to a full-body view of the man sitting at the bottom of the water with arms crossed and only his mouth above the surface. Text reads 'Me doing literally no marketing for my SaaS'.
A three-panel Dilbert-style office comic where a manager says “I think we should build an AI,” while the engineer worries he does not understand what that means. The manager then asks what color the AI should be and says mauve seems the most intelligent.
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