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Who is Lenny Rachitsky: Background, Newsletter, Podcast, and More

User Pilot

Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar. Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.”

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Finding the Next Wave of Growth: S-Curves and Product Sequencing

Casey Accidental

The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. Most companies when they find product/market fit with their first product only have one acquisition and engagement loop that is successful, and the job of most of the team is to refine and scale those loops.

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Recruiting and Retaining the Right Executive Talent

Andreessen Horowitz

Getting executives out of the 1:1 interview process and into a whiteboard session can help you assess their core competencies and how they’ll work with your team. How can we help the team get calibrated on the role? Matt Oberhardt: So, we have metrics that kind of roll up as a team. It’s just poor form.

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Vertical SaaS Startups Require Different Go To Market than Horizontal SaaS Companies

Tom Tunguz

in venture investment before going public six years after founding. These are the strategies I’ve observed: All vertical software companies develop uniquely focused products. In 2012, CoStar acquired its key competitor Loopnet to consolidate these data network effects further. Not bad for a business founded in 1987.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And at some point between year 2012 and 20 of the bull run, there may not be as good as it is today. Maria : Yeah, I think, coming from a marketing side and thinking about that as a marketer, marketing is all about investments. And notice that I said investments, not cost or spend. Any thoughts? Aaron : No.

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The New User Journey: Follow Your Users to Understand how to Excel at Go-to-Market

OpenView Labs

It’s important to focus on those users who become customers from the beginning because their usage of the product, and where they fall off in this user journey, will help you prioritize where your team spends the most time and resources to convert at the highest rate. . This is covered in-depth in the Developer Go-To-Market-Playbook. .

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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). Know your forever user.

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