Lenny Rachitsky: belief

25 Aug 2024 Lenny's Podcast How to consistently go viral: Nikita Bier’s playbook for winning at consumer apps (co-founder of TBH, Gas, advisor, investor)

“There's one last segment I want to spend a little time on, which is just kind of a rapid fire of pieces of advice you've shared that I think is incredibly insightful about how to build a successful consumer app.”

— Lenny Rachitsky

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Speaker: Lenny Rachitsky
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Claim type: belief
Recorded: 25 Aug 2024
Publisher: Lenny's Podcast
Episode: How to consistently go viral: Nikita Bier’s playbook for winning at consumer apps (co-founder of TBH, Gas, advisor, investor)

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…I don't think that it's necessarily that part. I think if I could keep the team lean and scale up... I think there's some actual founders that actually operate very lean teams and have reached very large scale in terms of the valuations of the company. Actually the most iconic example is Elon Musk. His teams are actually pretty thin overall and he's in the weeds doing product development. And so I think, yeah, if I was to ever do it, I would do it under very specific set of operating principles versus turning it into a big tech company. Queue investor is emailing you right now with term sheets. Okay. Nikita, this has been amazing. There's one last segment I want to spend a little time on, which is just kind of a rapid fire of pieces of advice you've shared that I think is incredibly insightful about how to build a successful consumer app. And so I'm thinking I'll just go through three to five and see what you think and see what you can add to the advice. How does that sound? Sounds great.…

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