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Jason Cohen

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On Writing Well

“For writing, On Writing Well by William Zinsser. I know I'm not the only one, but that's the point. On my best day, I write like that. And then for product, I actually like Crossing the Chasm, which of course everyone's heard of, but what I find is no one's read it, so that you know the little picture, and you think you know what the chasm is, what I find is very quickly I realize, "Oh, you haven't read the book. You saw a blog post." And there's so much good stuff in there, how to define a market and really what to do with this model. It's fantastic. So I highly recommend reading the book.”

Lenny's Podcast · 25 Jan 2026

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Crossing the Chasm

“For writing, On Writing Well by William Zinsser. I know I'm not the only one, but that's the point. On my best day, I write like that. And then for product, I actually like Crossing the Chasm, which of course everyone's heard of, but what I find is no one's read it, so that you know the little picture, and you think you know what the chasm is, what I find is very quickly I realize, "Oh, you haven't read the book. You saw a blog post." And there's so much good stuff in there, how to define a market and really what to do with this model. It's fantastic. So I highly recommend reading the book.”

Lenny's Podcast · 25 Jan 2026

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01 / prediction

In other words, if I shifted 10% at the front, which maybe I could do, I can't be dramatic but maybe a little, then in the output, I might be able to increase it by 20, 30%. So that's a huge change, and so the SaaS equivalent is, as we all know, if they leave early, not only is it bad but it's super unprofitable, because you spend all this money to acquire them and then they never stayed around long enough to pay it back, much less to be profitable.

“In other words, if I shifted 10% at the front, which maybe I could do, I can't be dramatic but maybe a little, then in the output, I might be able to increase it by 20, 30%. So that's a huge change, and so the SaaS equivalent is, as we all know, if they leave early, not only is it bad but it's super unprofitable, because you spend all this money to acquire them and then they never stayed around long enough to pay it back, much less to be profitable.”
Speaker
Jason Cohen
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

02 / prediction

You pick the best one, and then you go on, and you find another one, and pick the best one. And then a year later you look back and you should be like 50 or a hundred percent better because you've stacked these things, and you look back, and like nothing's different.

“You pick the best one, and then you go on, and you find another one, and pick the best one. And then a year later you look back and you should be like 50 or a hundred percent better because you've stacked these things, and you look back, and like nothing's different.”
Speaker
Jason Cohen
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

03 / prediction

In that case, it was true, if they're not growing, they're dying, literally. So again, I don't mean to overstate this, and I certainly don't mean to claim that there's some answer that's right for everybody, of course, but surely this is the right kind of question.

“In that case, it was true, if they're not growing, they're dying, literally. So again, I don't mean to overstate this, and I certainly don't mean to claim that there's some answer that's right for everybody, of course, but surely this is the right kind of question.”
Speaker
Jason Cohen
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast
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