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Laura Schaffer

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Simple Path to Wealth

“I'm a big believer in happiness. Not just being crunchy or we should all be happy, but also because it helps us do our best work and we're more creative and all this. So one is Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins. I don't ignore the data, that money is something that often gets in the way of our happiness. I know so many smart people that just have not figured out the whole managing their finances thing. And this book will cover all of your basics. It's very easy to read. He's got an audiobook that he narrates himself. Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins, he's fantastic.”

Lenny's Podcast · 9 Mar 2023

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01 / recommendation

Recommends Simple Path to Wealth.

“I'm a big believer in happiness. Not just being crunchy or we should all be happy, but also because it helps us do our best work and we're more creative and all this. So one is Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins. I don't ignore the data, that money is something that often gets in the way of our happiness. I know so many smart people that just have not figured out the whole managing their finances thing. And this book will cover all of your basics. It's very easy to read. He's got an audiobook that he narrates himself. Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins, he's fantastic.”
Speaker
Laura Schaffer
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

02 / belief

Here's what I would say to this is that from a high level, it's always going to be better to be iterative. And the reason that it's better is that roughly 80% of the times, ORs in the time are hypotheses and the things that we believe will be true [inaudible 00:34:42].

“Here's what I would say to this is that from a high level, it's always going to be better to be iterative. And the reason that it's better is that roughly 80% of the times, ORs in the time are hypotheses and the things that we believe will be true [inaudible 00:34:42].”
Speaker
Laura Schaffer
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

03 / belief

I think probably the one that most succinctly describes it as just, it ended up being a create your own demo experience which made you talk about the psyche of people.

“I think probably the one that most succinctly describes it as just, it ended up being a create your own demo experience which made you talk about the psyche of people.”
Speaker
Laura Schaffer
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

04 / belief

I'm actually interested in retention, I think is my part. Right now, I'll give you links so we can [inaudible 00:55:05] in the show notes.

“I'm actually interested in retention, I think is my part. Right now, I'll give you links so we can [inaudible 00:55:05] in the show notes.”
Speaker
Laura Schaffer
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

05 / preference

It's more like do this because this is going to be an accelerator for yourself irrespective of your manager. But then also it'll be an accelerator for your manager in supporting you because one of the things that comes into play a lot when managers figure out promotions and doing those things is they'll sit in a room, often calibrations and with a bunch of people, and it makes it a lot easier when those people have had some access or exposure or whatever to you in a positive light.

“It's more like do this because this is going to be an accelerator for yourself irrespective of your manager. But then also it'll be an accelerator for your manager in supporting you because one of the things that comes into play a lot when managers figure out promotions and doing those things is they'll sit in a room, often calibrations and with a bunch of people, and it makes it a lot easier when those people have had some access or exposure or whatever to you in a positive light.”
Speaker
Laura Schaffer
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

06 / evaluation

Again, this is why when you asked that question identify, as a very data-driven person. But I think some of the methods that I use can sound at the service level as more like, "Oh, I'm going by my gut.

“Again, this is why when you asked that question identify, as a very data-driven person. But I think some of the methods that I use can sound at the service level as more like, "Oh, I'm going by my gut.”
Speaker
Laura Schaffer
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

07 / prediction

Because I think growth team, given enough time to fail, enough time to learn the right thing to do is absolutely going to show success, real success.

“Because I think growth team, given enough time to fail, enough time to learn the right thing to do is absolutely going to show success, real success.”
Speaker
Laura Schaffer
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

08 / recommendation

It's just a little bit about harnessing it and understanding like, yeah, where are the gaps because there are going to be gaps. But anchoring in a customer problem as I think the way that you start any new product, any new thing that you're releasing, should always think about the customer and the pain point.

“It's just a little bit about harnessing it and understanding like, yeah, where are the gaps because there are going to be gaps. But anchoring in a customer problem as I think the way that you start any new product, any new thing that you're releasing, should always think about the customer and the pain point.”
Speaker
Laura Schaffer
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

09 / evaluation

I think the key is, and that the challenge for companies that have done the sales thing and are trying to crack into the PLG thing really comes down to how you fundamentally are approaching that space.

“I think the key is, and that the challenge for companies that have done the sales thing and are trying to crack into the PLG thing really comes down to how you fundamentally are approaching that space.”
Speaker
Laura Schaffer
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

10 / evaluation

Something akin your self-serve function and growth folks, someone akin to Salesforce because your developers are not going to accept sales coming in and trying to convert them at that stage.

“Something akin your self-serve function and growth folks, someone akin to Salesforce because your developers are not going to accept sales coming in and trying to convert them at that stage.”
Speaker
Laura Schaffer
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

11 / recommendation

I think we should make that available so they can just see it and then buy it," because we had an online checkout process.

“I think we should make that available so they can just see it and then buy it," because we had an online checkout process.”
Speaker
Laura Schaffer
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

12 / evaluation

I will say Amplitude is a fantastic tool that I have used and I would've said that if I hadn't just joined Amplitude so I got to use it...

“I will say Amplitude is a fantastic tool that I have used and I would've said that if I hadn't just joined Amplitude so I got to use it...”
Speaker
Laura Schaffer
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

13 / prediction

Are these numbers even good? And so, one of the hypotheses that I have is that if we take that perspective and we understand that that is the problem, that there's a number of things that we can do to really change the way that self-serve experience works to help convert people and show them how Amplitude can make them that powerful.

“Are these numbers even good? And so, one of the hypotheses that I have is that if we take that perspective and we understand that that is the problem, that there's a number of things that we can do to really change the way that self-serve experience works to help convert people and show them how Amplitude can make them that powerful.”
Speaker
Laura Schaffer
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

14 / preference

In large part because of that, I feel you have to be constantly checking yourself and data is a really great way to do that. But I definitely think that I would be described as someone who's going more by their gut when looking at date end results just because of the way that I approach it, which is I'm very comfortable and very common in using qualitative responses and things like that and supplement to quantitative data to make a decision and that puts less of a burden on the quantitative to really make an assessment of whether something was working or not.

“In large part because of that, I feel you have to be constantly checking yourself and data is a really great way to do that. But I definitely think that I would be described as someone who's going more by their gut when looking at date end results just because of the way that I approach it, which is I'm very comfortable and very common in using qualitative responses and things like that and supplement to quantitative data to make a decision and that puts less of a burden on the quantitative to really make an assessment of whether something was working or not.”
Speaker
Laura Schaffer
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast
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