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Uri Levine

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Atomic Habits

“Mark Randolph of Netflix. That Will Never Work, right? And by the way, it's funny. Mark Randolph wrote endorsement to my book and I reached out to him because I read someplace that he's answering all of his emails, and I reached, I sent him an email and said, "Look, we have at least three things in common. Number one, I do answer all of my emails as well. Number two, I'm using your product, you are using mine. And number three, I heard more time that will never work than you did." And I think that understanding this journey is really, really important, so this is definitely a book that I would recommend. Atomic Habits. Getting habits and improving them, measuring and improving, is really, really important.”

Lenny's Podcast · 9 Jun 2024

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01 / belief

I heard of cases that you basically say our underlining assumptions didn't work out and our thesis is wrong and therefore we would like to return the investors their money.

“I heard of cases that you basically say our underlining assumptions didn't work out and our thesis is wrong and therefore we would like to return the investors their money.”
Speaker
Uri Levine
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

03 / commitment

We decided in the management meeting that this is what we're going to do. And if push come to shovel, then we will do the next step and the next step and the next step.

“We decided in the management meeting that this is what we're going to do. And if push come to shovel, then we will do the next step and the next step and the next step.”
Speaker
Uri Levine
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

04 / commitment

End of the day, recent years have demonstrated major significant crisises throughout the world, from Covid to interest rate, to inflation, to wars. And then I realized that wait a minute, this is something that I haven't spoke about during my first book and it's time to write a new edition to that or a new chapter that will be added into the new release.

“End of the day, recent years have demonstrated major significant crisises throughout the world, from Covid to interest rate, to inflation, to wars. And then I realized that wait a minute, this is something that I haven't spoke about during my first book and it's time to write a new edition to that or a new chapter that will be added into the new release.”
Speaker
Uri Levine
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

05 / recommendation

Now you might want to decide, no, we're going to keep on running full steam ahead until we hit the wall because by that we increase the likelihood that we will have enough velocity to bypass the wall.

“Now you might want to decide, no, we're going to keep on running full steam ahead until we hit the wall because by that we increase the likelihood that we will have enough velocity to bypass the wall.”
Speaker
Uri Levine
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

08 / prediction

Way smaller. So what happened here is that you realize that, okay, this is not forever, so ski is going to come back but we don't know how long and therefore we assume that it's going to be for two seasons until it's coming back, until 2022.

“Way smaller. So what happened here is that you realize that, okay, this is not forever, so ski is going to come back but we don't know how long and therefore we assume that it's going to be for two seasons until it's coming back, until 2022.”
Speaker
Uri Levine
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

09 / prediction

The second one, which is even more significant, is that you lost product market fit. And that might happen, it might happen because of regulations, because of competition, because of something dramatic happened that there is no more value into your product.

“The second one, which is even more significant, is that you lost product market fit. And that might happen, it might happen because of regulations, because of competition, because of something dramatic happened that there is no more value into your product.”
Speaker
Uri Levine
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

10 / recommendation

One other thing that you might want to do is actually tell the people that we will be running out of cash in two month. And number one, I want you to help me even if we run out of cash because there are good chances that we eventually will be able to raise capital and recover that.

“One other thing that you might want to do is actually tell the people that we will be running out of cash in two month. And number one, I want you to help me even if we run out of cash because there are good chances that we eventually will be able to raise capital and recover that.”
Speaker
Uri Levine
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

11 / recommendation

So the entire journey from scratch. And if you answer yes to all of those, so you have the very significant value proposition and you think that you have something that is going to accelerate you dramatically because of the know-how, the technology, the team, then the next thing that you're going to do is validate it with the team.

“So the entire journey from scratch. And if you answer yes to all of those, so you have the very significant value proposition and you think that you have something that is going to accelerate you dramatically because of the know-how, the technology, the team, then the next thing that you're going to do is validate it with the team.”
Speaker
Uri Levine
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

12 / evaluation

" No, this is how you create dissatisfaction with the team and you would reduce costs because some people would leave because of that, not because of lack of coffee, but because of inability to determine and to make hard decisions.

“" No, this is how you create dissatisfaction with the team and you would reduce costs because some people would leave because of that, not because of lack of coffee, but because of inability to determine and to make hard decisions.”
Speaker
Uri Levine
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

13 / recommendation

Recommends Atomic Habits.

“Mark Randolph of Netflix. That Will Never Work, right? And by the way, it's funny. Mark Randolph wrote endorsement to my book and I reached out to him because I read someplace that he's answering all of his emails, and I reached, I sent him an email and said, "Look, we have at least three things in common. Number one, I do answer all of my emails as well. Number two, I'm using your product, you are using mine. And number three, I heard more time that will never work than you did." And I think that understanding this journey is really, really important, so this is definitely a book that I would recommend. Atomic Habits. Getting habits and improving them, measuring and improving, is really, really important.”
Speaker
Uri Levine
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

15 / belief

If up until now the product development group was the only things that matters, all of a sudden we think about marketing now because we are now in the go-to-market phase that this is the most important thing of the company.

“If up until now the product development group was the only things that matters, all of a sudden we think about marketing now because we are now in the go-to-market phase that this is the most important thing of the company.”
Speaker
Uri Levine
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

16 / commitment

Anything that I will tell you that we are still doing the same way that our parents did is probably something that we need to revisit.

“Anything that I will tell you that we are still doing the same way that our parents did is probably something that we need to revisit.”
Speaker
Uri Levine
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

17 / commitment

You know, there are tons of advices in the book and eventually I will tell, even in the hiring process, right, most of us are going to interview candidates and then decide that they like or dislike the candidate, but they don't know.

“You know, there are tons of advices in the book and eventually I will tell, even in the hiring process, right, most of us are going to interview candidates and then decide that they like or dislike the candidate, but they don't know.”
Speaker
Uri Levine
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

18 / commitment

Most of the western world, it's a geographical order. So in Israel, this is going to be sequential order, odd number on one side of the street, even number on the other side of the street starting from one until the end of the street and so forth, so it's enough that I will have few house numbers that I can actually take you to the right place.

“Most of the western world, it's a geographical order. So in Israel, this is going to be sequential order, odd number on one side of the street, even number on the other side of the street starting from one until the end of the street and so forth, so it's enough that I will have few house numbers that I can actually take you to the right place.”
Speaker
Uri Levine
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

20 / commitment

Raising capital is going to happen multiple times. And if we say that building a startup is a roller coaster journey, then I will say raising capital is a roller coaster journey in the dark.

“Raising capital is going to happen multiple times. And if we say that building a startup is a roller coaster journey, then I will say raising capital is a roller coaster journey in the dark.”
Speaker
Uri Levine
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

22 / prediction

If I will tell you that I have a startup that helps you to file your tax returns in three minutes, then okay, that's absolutely amazing, but you are only going to do that, next time is next year.

“If I will tell you that I have a startup that helps you to file your tax returns in three minutes, then okay, that's absolutely amazing, but you are only going to do that, next time is next year.”
Speaker
Uri Levine
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

25 / evaluation

Because if I bring other people, then at the end of the day they might say, "Yeah, I like the team, but the CEO was not specific, right?

“Because if I bring other people, then at the end of the day they might say, "Yeah, I like the team, but the CEO was not specific, right?”
Speaker
Uri Levine
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

26 / evaluation

To a certain extent, I would say, look, the difference between a corporate and a startup is that a corporate knows this is our value proposition, this is the product that we are selling, this is the pricing of this product that we are selling, this is the target audience, this is how we are going to sell them, this is how we going to the market, and all we have to do is keep on executing and hopefully nothing will change over the period of time.

“To a certain extent, I would say, look, the difference between a corporate and a startup is that a corporate knows this is our value proposition, this is the product that we are selling, this is the pricing of this product that we are selling, this is the target audience, this is how we are going to sell them, this is how we going to the market, and all we have to do is keep on executing and hopefully nothing will change over the period of time.”
Speaker
Uri Levine
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

27 / evaluation

Now the reason is that at the end of the day, they're afraid that this is going to be too complex for them and they will not get it, and they don't want to be embarrassed and they don't want to feel like idiots.

“Now the reason is that at the end of the day, they're afraid that this is going to be too complex for them and they will not get it, and they don't want to be embarrassed and they don't want to feel like idiots.”
Speaker
Uri Levine
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

29 / prediction

Just imagine that we will be here in 2007, just before I started Waze, and I will tell you I'm going to build an AI crowd-source based navigation system and you're going to say, "Oh, yeah, very interesting," but you don't care.

“Just imagine that we will be here in 2007, just before I started Waze, and I will tell you I'm going to build an AI crowd-source based navigation system and you're going to say, "Oh, yeah, very interesting," but you don't care.”
Speaker
Uri Levine
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

30 / evaluation

Because when they get up, they get up stronger, and when they know that they will get out of their comfort zone and they will eventually discover what makes them happy.

“Because when they get up, they get up stronger, and when they know that they will get out of their comfort zone and they will eventually discover what makes them happy.”
Speaker
Uri Levine
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast
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