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“And my entire product was offline browsing. But they had it as this buried power user feature and I saw the genius in that for that moment because bandwidth was so slow that I was like, "Oh, we can make an entire product just around that one feature.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Sid Meiers, the godfather of game design, who's the most revered game designer, he came out with, I think, a social Civilization on Facebook and we thought, "Oh, God, here comes the ultimate game designer." And 10 minutes after the game came out, the Zynga PMs emailed around their analysis and they said it's dead on arrival because his FTUE, his first time user experience was so many clicks and so bad that no one was ever going to see his great game design.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Speaking of that, to help people build their own internet treasure, your book is coming out very soon, I think around the time this episode comes out.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I wanted to write a book on parenting saying, "Everything I know about parenting, I learned from my dog Zynga.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think if I'm unpacking that when you say that the products turn people off, it's funny you say that because FarmVille and CityVille were our biggest hits in terms of installs, engagement, retention, revenues.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“One example that is my number one is my Easter egg on this is I think there should be an agentic travel agent. So a perfect example to me of a place where I think there is latent demand and the only reason we don't have it is because it doesn't make economic sense to offer it to us because we won't pay enough for it is a travel agent.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“We have a new kind of portal to that in GPT or whatever chat we use, AI chat, but it's not in my mind a platform.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“In the Peter Thiel sense, it's almost a moral arbitrage because there's something in our gut as a product maker.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“So just to summarize how I think about this framework, which is so good, if you start to really think through all the products that have succeeded and how many of them actually follow this, whether they were conscious or not, it's wild.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“You became a founder, an entrepreneur because you wanted to go be an innovator, but you're trying to win the hearts and minds of nurses in Indiana, like for Farmville.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“And I would say there's so many paradoxes in this and one that I've had to learn over and over again is if we're too ambitious at the outset and too ambitious and visionary about the product we want to build, then we will probably miss product market fit because we won't start at a small enough, humble enough place because it might ...”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“And I like to say we haven't earned the right to innovate on the camera until we are the world's leading PhD on the best mobile cameras that already exist.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“One of your insights along these lines is that this is your advantage as a startup is to be less ambitious because a Zuck needs to go really big because the revenue is already so high.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Even if they change for the better, we're angry because we go through life faster because of pattern recognition and we don't want to think about these things.”
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- Lenny's Podcast