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Brian Balfour

Published podcast speaker

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01 / uncertainty

Google did it very slowly over years, but same thing, early massive competition against Yahoo, I don't know, AltaVista, Lycos, you name them all.

“Google did it very slowly over years, but same thing, early massive competition against Yahoo, I don't know, AltaVista, Lycos, you name them all.”
Speaker
Brian Balfour
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

02 / uncertainty

I don't know why that just hit me, but you took a focused bet and you've benefited from it in a disproportional way than those that came later.

“I don't know why that just hit me, but you took a focused bet and you've benefited from it in a disproportional way than those that came later.”
Speaker
Brian Balfour
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

03 / uncertainty

The thing in Linear's case is that they are building a product for themselves essentially right now, that product is designed for modern software development teams who are most used by engineers and designers. So it makes sense that they have an intuitive sense of what the customer wants, whereas if they're building a product for, I don't know, call it sales folks, the engineers and designers just are probably not connected to that audience in the same exact way.

“The thing in Linear's case is that they are building a product for themselves essentially right now, that product is designed for modern software development teams who are most used by engineers and designers. So it makes sense that they have an intuitive sense of what the customer wants, whereas if they're building a product for, I don't know, call it sales folks, the engineers and designers just are probably not connected to that audience in the same exact way.”
Speaker
Brian Balfour
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast
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