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“From the nonfiction world, How Will You Measure Your Life by Clay Christensen, that's one I recommend. He takes the business learnings that he's had and applies it to your life. It's a very short and easy to get through book. Outside of that, I constantly recommend fiction. I think at one point it became uncool to read fiction that every moment you have needs to be productive and you need to learn something. I don't care what fiction it is you read, you can read Judy Blume for all I care, but just read fiction, be creative, do something with your brain other than reading nonfiction and learning things all the time.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“One is just how did that all happen? And then two, I think you mentioned somewhere that you didn't even meet a lot of your coworkers for a year and a half after joining Deel, it was very remote forward.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Favorite recent movie, I think along with everybody else, was Oppenheimer. I thought it was great.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Something that I go back and forth on a bit is, if SEO is something every company should be doing and will work for them? And in my experience, there's certain products that are really good for SEO, especially if there's user generated content or there's just a bunch of data like say Yelp or Glassdoor, where they can generate tons of pages in all these different ways.”
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“As long as your product is there to actually bring them value. So I would say people should just recognize that it's much simpler than they think it is, it just takes a lot of discipline to execute on it, it's not rocket science.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Huge fan of podcast ads over here, and maybe this would be a good time to cue the mid-roll ad, maybe, I don't know, it happens.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I didn't necessarily show up on Monday feeling already burned out, but it was more like, yes, I felt alive. And I think the right people will feel that way.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Whatever you're willing to share there, I don't know if you want to give away all your secrets.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think Twitter's a great place, people ask questions oftentimes, so there are communities.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I was the second hire to the marketing team, and I was I believe either employee 19 or 20 on the overall Deel team.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“" Something else that I think is important to talk about is Covid was an important element of your growth.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“And also I see a lot of people sometimes go blindly into SEO. They're like, "We're just going to write content," which I'm a huge fan of SEO, happy to discuss that later, but if people aren't asking this question to Google, you can write all the content you want, it doesn't matter, nobody's going to find it.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“April '22, we were looking at a hundred million. And then we started off this year with $295 million in ARR.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“So really long tail is where we focused on. And we started going very niche with websites that have maybe 50,000, a hundred thousand visitors a month, which isn't all that much when you're thinking about your paid ad strategy.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“" So a lot of those things just by the nature of being a pandemic business came a little bit later. But the thing that allowed I think for me in Deel to build the culture early on was, because we all work from home, we've been like that from day one.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think if you are in a space where people are looking for a solution, you should be doing SEO. But if you are a direct to consumer company selling people lipstick, which I'm a huge buyer of, you probably shouldn't invest in SEO all that much because people don't go to Google for that.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think I personally have been very spoiled and lucky because from the day I joined Deel, the product was top-notch.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“We have default optimism because we are in a new space, so if someone's going to come into Deel and they're going to be pessimistic and they're like, "I don't think that's going to work for X, Y, Z reasons," they're going to just slow things down.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I love this so much, because it connects with something I find again and again, is one of the more effective early growth channels is tapping into an existing community and piggybacking off of what they've already built.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I'm happy to give away all and everything. So I think before we dive into the list of cheap channels, which I will get to, it's very important to notice, especially in the B2B world, most of the businesses are started because there's an active problem.”
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“All about just how they made Snowflake work. And something he comes back to is just you need to constantly have a sense of urgency because when you don't, people get bored and they actually end up liking their job less because it's just like, I don't really know what I'm doing, things are moving along.”
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