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Elena Verna

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Granola

“And I use Granola a lot, for example, because to me, it's super helpful to get AI summaries of the meetings”

Lenny's Podcast · 18 Dec 2025

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Lovable

“I've never used AI there the way I use AI at Lovable and the things that I'm capable of accomplishing at Lovable, and I don't know if I ever would've made that leap so fast unless I joined Lovable.”

Lenny's Podcast · 18 Dec 2025

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03 / recommendation

Yes. And honestly, the longer you wait, the better it is because that way your entire company will be trained to be responsible for growth as opposed to putting this one island with a growth team and saying, "They're going to be growing," and what is the rest of the company doing?

“Yes. And honestly, the longer you wait, the better it is because that way your entire company will be trained to be responsible for growth as opposed to putting this one island with a growth team and saying, "They're going to be growing," and what is the rest of the company doing?”
Speaker
Elena Verna
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

04 / recommendation

Number three, this is my favorite, and it might be a little spicy because if there's any marketers listening out here, but doing rebrand more specifically, homepage redesign to drive growth.

“Number three, this is my favorite, and it might be a little spicy because if there's any marketers listening out here, but doing rebrand more specifically, homepage redesign to drive growth.”
Speaker
Elena Verna
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

05 / recommendation

You're just going to cut it at its knees immediately if you're not going to let it evolve into something that can be monetized, that can be responsible for acquisition. So example on Mirrorverse, which is a user-generated content library of all of the mirror boards that people create, it took us probably 18 months until we started putting metrics expectations on it.

“You're just going to cut it at its knees immediately if you're not going to let it evolve into something that can be monetized, that can be responsible for acquisition. So example on Mirrorverse, which is a user-generated content library of all of the mirror boards that people create, it took us probably 18 months until we started putting metrics expectations on it.”
Speaker
Elena Verna
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

06 / recommendation

There's still so much about knowing your user, understanding the market for your brain to connect all of those dots and to know what needs to be an experience that your customers are going to want. That if scientific data, like a very tight determination of the probability that this is a success, it's important, absolutely do it because it might be a really big strategical pivot that you're planning to do.

“There's still so much about knowing your user, understanding the market for your brain to connect all of those dots and to know what needs to be an experience that your customers are going to want. That if scientific data, like a very tight determination of the probability that this is a success, it's important, absolutely do it because it might be a really big strategical pivot that you're planning to do.”
Speaker
Elena Verna
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

08 / recommendation

You will take a whole village in order to activate something like that. So I think that there is freemium case for everyone, especially if you are trying to land a customer that you might not even wanting to monetize at the beginning, by the way, because you need to have a very good strategy behind your freemium.

“You will take a whole village in order to activate something like that. So I think that there is freemium case for everyone, especially if you are trying to land a customer that you might not even wanting to monetize at the beginning, by the way, because you need to have a very good strategy behind your freemium.”
Speaker
Elena Verna
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

09 / recommendation

That would be crazy, but if you want to play around with it, then absolutely go for it, and there's no time bound of how long it will take you to prototype something and understand whether MongoDB is the right solution for you. It's a great trial, where any production use case will go into their paid monetization model, but it doesn't give you this weird concept of you only have seven days to do it because we're busy, I'm busy, week flies by, and sometimes I don't have time to invest into discovery of a new product.

“That would be crazy, but if you want to play around with it, then absolutely go for it, and there's no time bound of how long it will take you to prototype something and understand whether MongoDB is the right solution for you. It's a great trial, where any production use case will go into their paid monetization model, but it doesn't give you this weird concept of you only have seven days to do it because we're busy, I'm busy, week flies by, and sometimes I don't have time to invest into discovery of a new product.”
Speaker
Elena Verna
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast
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