Speakers in the public record
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28 published records
“Increasingly, I'm recommending a book called Presenting to Win that's been around forever, but it really helped me with my presenting. And so of course when I'm out traveling, I'm often sharing the stage with other speakers and yeah, I like to recommend that one to them. I've already talked about Muriel's Hooked. I recommend that always, and we'll just stick with two. That's good two.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“One of my favorite books is Hooked by Nir Eyal and he talks about in the kind of engagement loop that your last step is investment.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I would say Dropbox is the referral program, and the PayPal referral program, as you mentioned, are the two most legendary, studied, copied referral programs out there.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“All the other companies were like CPM focused and so we could do really well just with lots of testing and some creativity in how it all worked. But that over time as, now I would say most online marketers are very data and test drive.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think every business could be a little bit different, but for Bounce it makes sense that that would be a really good opportunity for them.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think basically for each business it's just thinking about what's unique for that business that is going to open up channel opportunities and everyone's going to be a little bit, I think jaded from whatever the last thing that worked really well.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I had Jag from Nubank on the podcast, I think you may have worked with them, and they use 50% as their threshold because apparently Brazilians are very nice.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Like Yelp I think grew in a lot of ways of just little Yelp stickers in all the restaurant.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think that having that kind of finger on the pulse early in the business was important to build the muscle in the business to be really responsive as the market changed.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“" Look for inspiration from other products, I think people probably already know that.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I actually have a post I will link to in the show notes where I collected the North Star Metrics of 30 different companies to give you some inspiration.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Even Amazon, and again, this is just what I know of Amazon's as being but monthly purchases, but someone else might say Amazon, no Amazon's is GMV or something. But I think monthly purchases is great because it maps to value that people are getting from Amazon.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Sometimes there's stuff that's pretty different from how I would answer it, but longer term, I actually think, as I said, I think the cross-functional challenge to growth is a thing that holds a lot of companies back from being able to implement this a bit later.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Once you have product-market fit, not everyone's going to be a good executor. But before that, I think getting to product-market fit, obviously there's a lot of methodology for doing it today that might make it a bit easier for people, but I still think it's fairly random and pretty dang hard.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think Bounce is a really interesting example where SEO is super important for Bounce.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Man, I'm getting 10%, I'm getting 15%. I don't know what to do to increase my product-market fit.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think sometimes having something that's a little divisive is almost better because it's too easy to just go completely unnoticed.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Before I came in, I was like, "I think the way we're going to grow this business is by leveraging the really passionate customer base and that's what we need to double down on.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“What's your thoughts on RICE, the intercom version of ICE, where R stands for reach, I believe.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“To give you an example from the first company I worked on was a game company, where I actually flipped it and basically instead of making a traditional funnel where they could play our games after they signed up, I made our games the advertisements.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Have I built something people want?" That's just an endless series of, "I don't know.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I wasn't involved with them. We wrote about it in our book in 2017, and so I think that I got it out there.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think the reason that you don't actually hear people taking the obvious route there a lot of times is because, and I used to be in the same thing, that people tend to be either over indexed on qualitative or over indexed on quantitative.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Generally, I think I touched on it a little bit earlier, but generally the sequence that I like to do is start with activation because that one's just so critical and it's easy to get lost in between, especially for an early product.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Even when I run a workshop, I don't run this as part of my survey after I do a workshop because how would you feel if you could no longer attend the workshop you just attended?”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think we did almost an hour on that one topic, which I love because I feel like this is such a powerful tool that I think people sort of know and have used, but I think there's a lot of opportunity to use it more effectively.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I like to be among the first to try cool new technology, or, I only try things that I think will be useful for me?”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I prefer a more passionate customer base and work from there, just because I think your biggest competition when you're really innovating is just being irrelevant.”
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- Lenny's Podcast