SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. So to illustrate this, I want to talk about getting deep product/market fit, and specifically one story of a founder that I admire by the name of Parker Conrad that he has told in the past. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

10% basically means you don’t have any product market fit. Once you’ve found your product market fit, you’re immediately looking at acquiring new customers. In the world where tech talent is so hard to find and to recruit, what are your software engineers spending their time on?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: Balancing human-computer interaction has been the difference between technologies that break out and are very successful and technologies that are considered to be ahead of their time or just not the right product-market fit. Take the work out of work, that’s my motto in life.

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User Pilot

MAY 27, 2025

He has led end-to-end product development across edtech and SaaS sectors, with a strong focus on product-led growth. With a background in software engineering and a Masters in Product Design, he combines technical depth with growth-driven business acumen to deliver impactful, user-centric solutions.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

While product development describes the process of creating the product itself (i.e. designing screens, writing code, running tests), product management is a broader concept that encompasses strategy , vision, and product-market fit. Monitor interest in certain topics over time with Google Trends.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

How did you all get to product-market fit ? Rick : I heard a great analogy that when you’re in pre-product-market fit, you can feel like you’re in a desert. “When you’re in pre-product-market fit, you can feel like you’re in a desert. What has it been like the second time around?

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2025

A seasoned product leader with over 5 years of experience in product or program management, product marketing, business development, or technology. An individual adept at owning and driving roadmap strategy and definition, with a track record of end-to-end product delivery. Who would be the best fit for this job?

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Buffer Resources

MARCH 1, 2024

Here’s who weighed in: Adnan Issadeen , Security and Compliance Engineer Years at Buffer: 8 Retreats attended: Madrid (2017), Singapore (2018), San Diego (2019) Åsa Nyström , VP Customer Advocacy Years at Buffer: 11 Retreats attended: San Francisco/Lake Tahoe (2013), Thailand (2013), Cape Town (2014), Sydney (2015), New York (2015), (..)

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Furthermore, developers and software engineers are often treated as a monolithic group, when in reality there are dozens of disciplines with specific needs. We began with a generalist profile, a common strategy for younger companies that are still figuring out product-market fit and defining the buyer audience.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2025

Social media is full of hot takes about AI replacing developers, the death of software engineering, and whether we’re all doomed or destined for greatness. Your competitors who embrace these tools aren’t just shipping faster – they’re learning faster, iterating faster, and getting to product-market fit faster.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 21, 2021

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.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2025

My son, my son who’s a software engineer, shows me examples of, Hey, this is how AI can simplify some of the really mundane things that really drown you and Rev ops people in their day to day and free you from those shackles to do the more important things. But all, all signs to me point to product market fit.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Camille Ricketts, Notion HQ , Head of Marketing. Product Marketing Manager. Jossie Haines, Tile , Director of Engineering. King-Sun Wai, Principal Engineer. Sahil Sharma, Software Engineer – Samsung. Shonnah Hughes, Global Product Growth and Innovation Evangelist , GetFeedback.

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SmartKarrot

JULY 29, 2021

This includes: Product by Design : Each episode of this podcast zeroes in on the making of a great product experience, with a dent of focus in the user experience design. Software Engineering Daily : For the Product Managers with a technical backdrop, this podcast helps its listeners by working more intelligently.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Product marketing speaker. AI and product management The use of AI in product management isn’t new; small and large companies have been doing it for years. Use your product as a channel to express your values. Shape your product vision into foreseeable goals, each one a step towards fulfilling that big vision.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Krish Subramanian: We are software engineers by training. My co-founders cut their teeth at Zoho for over 10 years building product and for over six years [inaudible] software products. In terms of the product market fit falling apart. When I say we, it’s me and my four co-founders.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

And I said like “computer programmer” or “software engineer” or something like that. Harry Stebbings: I totally agree and it actually very much reminds me of Rahul Vohra’s Superhumans discussion on how to find product market fit and really constraining how you view the ideal user of your product.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. I mean, my career started as a software engineer, and out of frustration, I went into sales. billion acquisition.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Bryan Caplin: Andela is what I would call an engineering as a service company. We help technology leaders build distributed software engineering teams quickly and cost effectively so they can ship product faster. I’ve tended to focus on earlier stage high growth companies that have really strong product market fit.

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SaaStr

MAY 17, 2019

But two other software engineers, building [inaudible 00:04:24] that was kind of a time and expense software system. For example, with Matt and I, Matt really know sales, and revenue engine, and so frankly I don’t have to worry about that. And so that was my first.

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