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23 published records
“Just on the note of you talking about why teens are important, I have this quote actually from you that I love where building on the point you made that for every social app I've ever built and the number of invitations sent per user drops 20% for every additional year of age from 13 to 18.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“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.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I know that point is really important to you. I think a lot of people are like Nikita just sold the same app twice.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“To defend product managers, I think many product managers spend a lot of time in design, spend a lot of time with data science.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“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.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“"What are you working on?" And at this point, I think you probably in your mind thought, I am this one-hit wonder, I haven't shown that I can do this again and again.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Interestingly, I don't know how much you can go into this, but there is a lot of stuff going on with Gas around human trafficking and all this stuff where people thought people were being kidnapped through Gas, which is yeah, talk about that whatever you can because that's pretty crazy.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“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.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think people see this headline and we'll get into tbh of just like nine weeks after launch sells for $30 million to Facebook and everyone's like, "Oh, okay, that's amazing.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“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.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“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.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Basically, I think that's a really interesting insight of just like if you're working on something you don't enjoy, you can change that, you can pivot, you can tell your investors I want to work on something else.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“There's one last segment I want to spend a little time on, which is just kind of a rapid fire of pieces of advice you've shared that I think is incredibly insightful about how to build a successful consumer app.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“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.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I love that you shared that because I think a lot of people see you from the outside and they think you're doing all kinds of these skeezy growth hacks and making teens do things that aren't really mentally healthy for them.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“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.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Typically, I recommend that you don't book me unless you're venture backed because it's a little expensive.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I love that you found these things out, not through just research and not through just thinking, it was through actual trying things over and over and over and trying different audiences, trying different experiences.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“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.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“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.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I mean, I was building standalone apps my entire time at Facebook. I think I built probably eight apps while I was at Facebook.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“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.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Consumer app developers sometimes say smokers are great for targeting an audience because they actually hang out serendipitously a lot outside of buildings.”
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- Lenny's Podcast