@alighodsi (CEO of @databricks
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Databricks CEO reveals PMF challenges at $100M ARR
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Product-Market Fit: Continuous Process Across Market Segments
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2. Stop thinking of product-market fit as a single moment. It can be, but it almost always isn't. Instead, think of finding PMF as an ongoing process of finding stronger fit with more and more segments of the market. Here's how @shishirmehrotra describes it:
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Organic Growth Pattern: PMF to Explosive Startup Scaling
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Though it often takes years to find initial PMF, once you do, a common pattern across top startups is strong (and explosive) organic growth—primarily seen as cold inbound and word-of-mouth growth. This was true for Segment, Loom, Dropbox, Canva, Sprig, Stytch, and most others.
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Product-Market Fit: Key Discovery for B2B Success
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Some of my biggest surprises when researching paths to PMF for top B2B companies: 1. If you build it, they *will* come—if you have strong product-market fit.
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Popular Podcast Episodes Summarized by Community Fans
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New: Podcast summaries Long-time podcast fans @cggaurav and @adhiraj38 have created detailed summaries (no AI involved) of 10 of the most popular podcast episodes. More are in the works. Check them out and let us know what you think: https://
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Unconventional Thinking Drives Innovation in Technology
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Why "thinking wrong" often leads to the biggest ideas, from @lochhead pic.twitter.com/p9yiVT75Tf
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) 18 septembre 2023Why "thinking wrong" often leads to the biggest ideas, from @lochhead
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Avoiding Full-Time Employees: Automation and Workforce Strategy
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Trying hard to never have (or need) a full-time employee.
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Christopher Lochhead: Category Design Godfather and Tech Strategy Visionary
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Christopher Lochhead (@lochhead) is a 14-time #1 bestselling author, 3x public tech company CMO, advisor to over 50 VC-backed tech startups, and is best known as a godfather of category design. He's also hilarious, inspiring, an incredible storyteller, and full of spicy takes.… pic.twitter.com/O5JxkuixhF
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) 17 septembre 2023Christopher Lochhead (
@lochhead
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Master Fundamentals Before Using Frameworks
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An important reminder from @ojiudezue on how to use (and not use) frameworks in your work
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) 15 septembre 2023
tl;dr know the fundamentals before relying on frameworks pic.twitter.com/YkcTE41Y8BAn important reminder from @ojiudezue on how to use (and not use) frameworks in your work tl;dr know the fundamentals before relying on frameworks
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Linear Raises Funding: Inside Product Building Strategy
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Congrats to @Linear on the big fundraise! Very lucky to have seen @karrisaarinen in action while at Airbnb, and to be a tiny investor. Also, lucky for ALL of us, I've got Karri coming on the pod soon, and we're working on a "How Linear builds product" post—coming soon.