795 memorable quotes from Lenny's Podcast guests
“Newer marketplaces are charging higher commissions and they're doing more work to justify those commissions.”
“The more concentrated either side of your market is, the more leverage they have, the less likely they are to need you and the less likely they are to be willing to pay a high commission.”
“If you're building a SaaS business, you're a construction worker, you're building the product and the features and selling it, and it's this very linear thing. For a marketplace, you're like messing with this ecosystem that you don't actually really understand how it works.”
“If something is 99% done, it's closer to 0% rather than 100%.”
“You need to stay lean, you need to validate things before you scale them.”
“The best way to do it is probably your own startup, and it also what will give you the steepest possible learning curve.”
“One of my mantras is just don't die.”
“The underlying theme is that rationally the founder should have given up at some point.”
“If you don't enjoy what you're doing, you should probably make a change.”
“There's nothing artificial about AI. It's inspired by people. It's created by people, and most importantly, it impacts people.”
“No technology should take away human dignity and the human dignity and agency should be at the heart of the development, the deployment, as well as the governance of every technology.”
“Everybody has a role in AI.”
“Success is making the people who believed in you look brilliant.”
“Don't try to go learn something because you think it's worth learning. Find an actual problem that you care about and go try to solve it with that new thing.”
“Talent controls the slope of the curve, but most things are actually acquirable skills.”
“Every problem is our problem and radical accountability and ownership mentality helped us find opportunities that maybe the business wasn't explicitly asking us to solve.”
“If you can do nothing else, if you can't change them, at least recognize them and do what you can to mitigate the blast radius.”
“Having taste, having something that you were passionate about, that you have spent enough time learning and understanding and appreciating and critiquing and being frustrated with that you have a point of view that is potentially even polarizing is taste.”
“You need to practice product management to be good at product management.”
“It's not the hate for product management, it's a hate for the understanding of what they have experienced in product management.”
