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25 Jan 2026 Lenny's Podcast 5 questions to ask when your product stops growing | Jason Cohen (2x unicorn founder)
“What I would say is the rules are true everywhere because they're based in the mechanics of finance in the business.”
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- 25 Jan 2026
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…I love just how this third step just reveals how powerful the sequence is that we're going through. Step one is this logo retention. Essentially, do we have product market fit? Step two is pricing, positioning. Essentially, are we going after the right market and charging them the right amount roughly? And then here it's just, can we grow? Is there something here that can continue to expand? Because you're going to get eaten alive if you're, especially... And just to be clear, this is B2B SaaS primarily that we're talking about here. It's harder to grow NRR if you're a consumer product that has, I don't know, just a tier or two. What I would say is the rules are true everywhere because they're based in the mechanics of finance in the business. You're right that in the consumer segment or small business segment for that matter, they tend not to grow. So that doesn't mean the NRR question is invalid. It means, dang, we can't think of anything. That's okay. Then you go onto the next question because you can't think of anything, but it would be more strategic if we could. And are we trying hard enough? As a consumer, I do not want to spend more with AT&T, but they're also not giving me any more value. But there are other products as a consumer, like Amazon, where they do. So you're right, but it would be as a product manager, it would be 10 times more valuable for you to think of something like that than to move on to other things, et cetera, or there's other ways, like other products. We didn't talk about it and it's okay because of course each one of these, you could go on forever, right? But another way is a second product. A second product sold to the same segments that you're in so that your existing customers can buy it. Well, I don't know why that wouldn't work in consumer. It certainly works in consumer in apparel. I think about AG1, which has all these new... I'm doing their sleep supplement, and there it goes. They're just like, "Here's a new thing you can buy."…
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