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Nikita Bier

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01 / belief

I also take a very deep look at every funnel that users come through. And I think a lot of founders separate marketing and product growth, like top of funnel growth from the actual products growth mechanisms, but they're both the same.

“I also take a very deep look at every funnel that users come through. And I think a lot of founders separate marketing and product growth, like top of funnel growth from the actual products growth mechanisms, but they're both the same.”
Speaker
Nikita Bier
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

02 / belief

Yeah, it's certainly an exaggerated view, but it's particularly relevant I think for all the zero to one initiatives because if you're a product manager on a standalone app inside of a large, like you should be designing the hierarchy, the pixels, the flows, everything.

“Yeah, it's certainly an exaggerated view, but it's particularly relevant I think for all the zero to one initiatives because if you're a product manager on a standalone app inside of a large, like you should be designing the hierarchy, the pixels, the flows, everything.”
Speaker
Nikita Bier
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

03 / belief

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.

“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.”
Speaker
Nikita Bier
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

04 / belief

I think the person that designed the feature probably has never built an app or done contact sync before because the flow is egregiously bad and it doesn't actually even, I think, benefit the user's privacy because it just completely eliminates the feature altogether.

“I think the person that designed the feature probably has never built an app or done contact sync before because the flow is egregiously bad and it doesn't actually even, I think, benefit the user's privacy because it just completely eliminates the feature altogether.”
Speaker
Nikita Bier
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

05 / belief

There's a bunch of other kind of subcategories that are very utilitarian like movement, Uber or Airbnb, like shelter. And so I think putting that in a framing document and the particular nuanced reason why people are going to adopt is difficult when you're presenting that to people that are seasoned professionals and care about how something might reflect on them personally.

“There's a bunch of other kind of subcategories that are very utilitarian like movement, Uber or Airbnb, like shelter. And so I think putting that in a framing document and the particular nuanced reason why people are going to adopt is difficult when you're presenting that to people that are seasoned professionals and care about how something might reflect on them personally.”
Speaker
Nikita Bier
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

06 / evaluation

I think the thing that is hard to really understand for first-time founders that hit breakout success with a consumer product is how draining and how spread thin you get, because everything breaks.

“I think the thing that is hard to really understand for first-time founders that hit breakout success with a consumer product is how draining and how spread thin you get, because everything breaks.”
Speaker
Nikita Bier
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

07 / recommendation

Will it hop peer groups? And what I think the most important thing that I learned is that's actually a really great way to do zero to one product development is execute at 100% for the thing you're trying to validate at that specific stage of the product development cycle.

“Will it hop peer groups? And what I think the most important thing that I learned is that's actually a really great way to do zero to one product development is execute at 100% for the thing you're trying to validate at that specific stage of the product development cycle.”
Speaker
Nikita Bier
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

09 / preference

We picked the one school that had the earliest start date in the United States because we needed to launch as soon as possible, given the state of the company.

“We picked the one school that had the earliest start date in the United States because we needed to launch as soon as possible, given the state of the company.”
Speaker
Nikita Bier
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

10 / preference

I think one day I will run maybe a venture scale business, but I will say that I kind of like the way that I've been doing things so far in terms of quality of life and being fun.

“I think one day I will run maybe a venture scale business, but I will say that I kind of like the way that I've been doing things so far in terms of quality of life and being fun.”
Speaker
Nikita Bier
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

11 / commitment

I mean, I was building standalone apps my entire time at Facebook. I think I built probably eight apps while I was at Facebook.

“I mean, I was building standalone apps my entire time at Facebook. I think I built probably eight apps while I was at Facebook.”
Speaker
Nikita Bier
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

12 / evaluation

That's egregiously illegal to do and also unethical at a user experience level to send texts when people don't even know what's happening. But anyway, we couldn't send texts over Twilio anymore, and that led to people not sending as many invites when we created Gas because they had to pop the Compose window and hit Send.

“That's egregiously illegal to do and also unethical at a user experience level to send texts when people don't even know what's happening. But anyway, we couldn't send texts over Twilio anymore, and that led to people not sending as many invites when we created Gas because they had to pop the Compose window and hit Send.”
Speaker
Nikita Bier
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

13 / evaluation

Consumer app developers sometimes say smokers are great for targeting an audience because they actually hang out serendipitously a lot outside of buildings.

“Consumer app developers sometimes say smokers are great for targeting an audience because they actually hang out serendipitously a lot outside of buildings.”
Speaker
Nikita Bier
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast
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