795 memorable quotes from Lenny's Podcast guests
โGet your hands dirty with all of these products. There will be a tremendous amount of alpha for anyone that is able to take maximum advantage of these tools.โ
โYou need to be irrationally optimistic and uncompromisingly realistic.โ
โI think that it's a really great empathy building exercise of understanding that point.โ
โThe reality is we haven't, and we're still experimenting with a lot of things.โ
โIt's really easy to listen to some of these podcasts and feel like, oh, these people have kind of figured everything out.โ
โWhenever that happens, what I do is I remind myself, 'Keep it about the work,' because as long as you make it about the work there's always work to be done and there's always a path that emerges from that work.โ
โRemember that in 100 years we'll all be dead and forgotten. So don't take yourself too seriously.โ
โEveryone is much more gifted at it than they think.โ
โWe needed to get faster at launching features, improving the experience, and ultimately, having a predictable way to drive GMS.โ
โIt's a business, and we needed to get faster at launching features.โ
โIf you're going to do it, do it properly.โ
โYou can achieve that in collaboration with others. You don't have to be the person that raises the seed round.โ
โThe devil is in the details when you're a product designer and be uninterested in nuance at your peril.โ
โI think we all do this as designers and product people.โ
โWe might be wrong but we're not confused.โ
โThe moment you think you achieved something is the moment you start to deteriorate down.โ
โI would rather go forward with everybody in the same direction than necessarily try to hedge all the time.โ
โAlways forward think, backwards plan.โ
โPaid is for everyone.โ
โIt's okay to fail because we're either winning or we're learning.โ