For others, like @Figma and @github
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Figma and GitHub Monetization Strategy in AI Era
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Founders Signal PMF Beyond Retention Metrics
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3. No founders I spoke with used retention as their signal of PMF. It might have been implicit, but it wasn’t really ever the main story.
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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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Salesforce Recruits Former Executives With Boomerang Initiative
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Salesforce is still trying to lure back former executives, and at one alumni session last week, those who attended were given little mascot stuffed animals wearing shirts decorated with a boomerang. i didn't see this mascot wandering around the show though https://
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Machine Learning: Revolutionary Potential for Marketing Industry
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Machine learning has the potential to revolutionize the marketing industry #AI #AIio #BigData #ML #NLU #Futureofwork @ahier @guzmand
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Avoiding the AI Gold Rush: Finding the Right AI Workflow Role
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Avoiding The ‘AI Gold Rush’: Finding The Right Role For AI In Your Workflow
#AI #AIio #BigData #ML #NLU #Futureofwork @DeepLearn007 @albertogaruccio @alvinfoo @andi_staub @andy_lucerne @antgrasso @BernardMarr @enricomolinari http://
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Tech Leaders Brief Congress on AI: Adobe, Google, Salesforce Updates
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For the next weekly @Digiday AI Briefing, I wrote about top tech leaders with Congress last week — some under oath and others behind closed doors. Other info recaps generative AI news from Adobe, Salesforce, Google, Niantic, Canva, Dentsu, Runway & more.