Lenny's Podcast / episode intelligence
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32 published records
01 / belief
“I think a lot of people think influencer marketing and they'll think these big trendy creators, people that have a million followers.”
02 / belief
“Gamma, our agent can actually go and review your entire deck and say, "Actually, if I were to add suggestions, I would say, 'You may want to change the visual layout on these set of cards, and you may want to actually change the imagery or the visuals for these cards to match everything else.”
03 / belief
“You can sort of, I think try to, again, trick yourself into thinking you're great at picking creators or you're great at telling them how to post about your stuff.”
04 / commitment
“How bad must this investor feel at this point. We won't name names. Just to share some stats, I know this is going to be by the time this launches, this will be out, but you guys are at over 100 million ARR now, worth over $2 billion.”
05 / belief
“I think for us, we do benefit from being in a category where, by nature of it, if you like Gamma, you're sharing it, presenting it to others.”
06 / belief
“Yeah, we feel super proud to have accomplished that. And again, yeah, I'm excited to share some of the growth tactics and things that worked for us because I think hopefully it'll help others kind of on their journey as well.”
07 / belief
“Check out my amazing products." Like, "Here's a thing I learned. You might find it useful.”
08 / belief
“I think being adaptable means that certain things may evolve and change and how the player coach model evolves and maybe in certain functions or as the team scales, that's not going to be practical everywhere.”
09 / uncertainty
“" You have some even more concrete pieces of advice here of just what that looks like. You have a huge, I don't know, philosophy of just huge leverage per person.”
10 / belief
“Just to highlight this point you made that I think is really powerful, I haven't heard it described this way before, just the power of testing prototypes very, very, very early, using these platforms that make it super easy.”
11 / belief
“You also built a business in a category that I think most people never imagined there was this big of an opportunity.”
12 / belief
“I think with founder-led marketing, it's almost this mindset of you want to give people a ton of content, maybe it's a value in the content, so you're sharing something, maybe some secret tactic or you're giving them something where inherently there's value in it, and in exchange you sort of get goodwill back.”
13 / uncertainty
“Oh, what a, that survey man, what a, and not only just that survey being the slick, I'm imagining that XKCD comic with the open source little, I don't know, block holding up the entire world, like this one little piece of code.”
14 / uncertainty
“I see your face all the time in my LinkedIn feed. I don't know if you know this is a thing.”
15 / belief
“If this number goes up, does it mean the product is working? And I think that's where we looked at, okay, it felt good to win those things.”
16 / uncertainty
“I don't know, is there anything surprising about, "Oh wow, this model's actually really good at this and this is really bad at that.”
17 / belief
“The book I always point people to when they're struggling with this sort of thing and like, "Okay, I did this and no one cared, didn't do any good," is there's a book by Scott Pressfield, I think is his name, called Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit, which is exactly what is right.”
18 / uncertainty
“Just like, most of what limits people it feels like now is just, I don't know what idea I have.”
19 / belief
“You don't want your product to be at a point where more than 50% of your acquisitions are coming through paid acquisition. I think if that is happening, your core growth engine is broken.”
20 / uncertainty
“I don't know, imagining some kind of a storyboard and then it's figure out the model and level of model and prompt for that model to achieve each of these steps as best as possible.”
21 / uncertainty
“Let's talk about the next phase and maybe, I don't know, tell us kind of the ARR at that point through 100 million.”
22 / belief
“I think you never want to obviously just throw something together without giving it much thought, but for us with limited resources, we focused on the only thing we thought mattered, which was getting some initial users and having that organic growth.”
23 / evaluation
“I think that's where the putting all your eggs in one basket is just probably the surest way to fail, because you're going to miss a ton and it's going to take you way too long to learn and you're going to come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time.”
24 / evaluation
“Because everyone's like, "Oh sure, I'll block off time. And then, I don't know, okay, but I actually got to do all this other stuff so I'm not going to use it this time or maybe next week.”
25 / recommendation
“" People aren't even getting to the third screen. They're stuck on the first screen because they can't even find the button that we think is so dead obvious, and so let's go back and actually re-engineer, re-architect that piece of it.”
26 / prediction
“Honestly, I don't think there's a minimum, because even with platforms like TikTok, they oftentimes are giving you credit for a brand new account. They want to help amplify that new account, because obviously if they're thinking from a creator perspective, if that new creator feels like, "Oh, coming to TikTok is a massive win for me," they're going to be more invested in it.”
27 / preference
“I think you're much better doing the hard thing, which is hard to scale, but it's finding the thousands of micro influencers that have an audience where your product maybe is actually useful.”
28 / preference
“We knew that we had to least put all of our energy into one spot, and so we made that coming into the door, come through the door, make that moment feel magical so that we can do a little bit more over time.”
29 / preference
“I mean, I think the most important thing is before we even talk about the technology, so we're skipping to the part where you're trying to apply the most interesting models or technology to solve some problem.”
30 / recommendation
“For me, it was like just having a notepad or a Google Doc around in the beginning where I would just constantly jot down, okay, this is something I learned or something I observed or something that worked well, something that was unintuitive but worked, and just start creating a log of that.”
31 / prediction
“I think throughout the journey there's going to be those low moments. And when I think about being a founder and working a startup, you're honestly just trying to increase your luck surface area as much as possible.”
32 / prediction
“Maybe something about what he's saying is actually correct. And so for me, I started thinking about, if we're going to succeed in this category, we're going to really have to think about growth from the very beginning.”