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Sales–Product Tension: The Secret to Segment’s Success

Andreessen Horowitz

I think the annual planning process that we actually ended up running was pretty similar to every other one we had run, but it was a couple months after we had just really deeply understood what it was people were using Segment for today and what they wanted to be able to rely on it for at a bigger, more enterprise-ready scale.

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Lessons learned from growing a PM team in a hyper-growth startup

Point Nine Land

Why would you come up with a 24 months roadmap when you just have funding for another 6 months and still didn’t figure out your product-market fit? You need to prepare a nice presentation with things your colleagues can take away: more value and benefits, less features and tech details. Keep it simple, all the way.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Facebook Workplace and Slack ? May 29, 2020

SaaStr

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. In terms of metrics, how do you determine success and product market fit itself within an organization? Oculus our VR gaming platform is now enterprise ready. You can see the full video here.

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