Lenny's Podcast / episode intelligence
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21 published records
01 / belief
“I think I would say that's the heart of that because their domain expertise, they're YouTubers or creators.”
02 / belief
“I think for a while, okay, once we start revenue, product grows faster now. Investors start knocking on the door was like, I remember one day it's like there's a dog food, dog treats sent to our entire office.”
03 / belief
“I think the more interesting point here, it's like you can create progress through better abstractions.”
04 / belief
“There's a different dimension of things just cooking together that come together as a product more as a business than what is that? And I think a product maker, business maker's job is to find that sweet spot of all the multiple dimensions, then create something has a right to exist.”
05 / belief
“I think the good advantage is if a customer use Notion, they can address those three, four use cases in one place.”
06 / evaluation
“Then it's like what is this? It's like underpowered compared to other competitor products to doing product management and it doesn't work well with the rest of Notion like I said.”
07 / belief
“Yeah, because of the way how we just hire someone in the office as a dog. Then I think we post on Twitter or something.”
08 / belief
“I think going back to me and Simon, high is never that high, low is never that low, it never hit us as a binary state.”
09 / belief
“" I think there's an element of staying lean, like you've let everyone go and it's just you and Simon again.”
10 / belief
“Learning-wise, I think segmentation is quite important because people can use a Lego for different things.”
11 / uncertainty
“I don't know if it was this point or later, but the Douglas Engelbart paper ended up being a very meaningful moment for you.”
12 / evaluation
“I love that you keep coming back to this idea of there's the ideals and the values and the vision and what you're trying to do, and then you have to find the way to frame it and package it so that people actually understand and want it.”
13 / evaluation
“And as a leader in the company, you decide who sit around you on the bus seats. That dictates how fast our overall bus moves, dictate your work and life experience at this company because you pick your roommate, you pick your seat mates.”
14 / preference
“There was Sequoia famously invests in seven sins or seven human natures of human because they're so powerful if you just latch onto them, you can create a business, you can create a product. But at least I prefer to amplify creativity and beauty in the domain of software.”
15 / commitment
“I have done all this already and I will throw it away and start again and that's okay.”
16 / evaluation
“I would say the third one, which is even more fascinating, it's for the longest time and it's still is one of the biggest weaknesses of building for Legos, it's hard to piece together.”
17 / prediction
“The market could shift again. So understand this trend, I think, helpful to see should you build a vertical solution or should you build horizontal solution because it does different things.”
18 / evaluation
“I think going back to the abstraction system way of problem solving, I think we're lucky that me and Simon and Akshay, we have the skillset you probably can run a whole company, which is a couple of us, I can design, I can do marketing, storytelling, close sales deals.”
19 / preference
“The one reason I try not to do podcasts and all those things, oh, it's actually it drains energy in a different ways. I prefer just building product and brainstorm sessions.”
20 / evaluation
“I think courage is quite important because oftentimes you're working on things don't matter, but momentum just took you there.”
21 / evaluation
“Then it took another year to realize to build this out, but in the middle of that I realized we built on the wrong technical foundation.”