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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? Product Marketing. This is the function in the organization that is really going to amplify the product messaging in your company, and the other way around.