795 memorable quotes from Lenny's Podcast guests
“It's very hard to keep product-market fit as a CPO within a company for a long time.”
“If what your plan is is to use paid acquisition on top of a freemium model to get a percentage of people to convert, and hopefully, stick around forever, I'd pivot right now.”
“You want to show that you are caring and paying attention to the overall business first before just taking care of your own product designers, product managers, researchers.”
“The best part is working with people who really lean into their creativity and their passion so much so that they do it for a living.”
“A frog in a well cannot know the ocean.”
“The hardest part... is this feeling that you want to give your all but sometimes it doesn't translate into financial stability.”
“Data network effects are underrated.”
“If you got a product that retains well and you can't find more users for it, I don't think that's product market fit.”
“People just way under communicate upward inside of companies.”
“One of the biggest mistakes you can make on social media is giving yourself a quota.”
“A lot of a founder's strength comes from leaning into where they know that they love to work.”
“You have to think about content market fit.”
“In the absence of data, people make shit up.”
“If you have none, it's unlikely you're going to experience quite as rich and full a life.”
“We're all works in progress, which means every relationship in your life is a work in progress.”
“Being profitable means that we never have to do that. We can always do it on our own terms and in our own time.”
“You can't just be a product that's purely built on AI on being a rapper around an LLM or something like that. You still need to think about what it is that people want to do and how you build a product that actually meets that need.”
“I just love bumping into someone in the street and seeing the joy of design right up in their eyes.”
“It's not really about is this person good or bad or whatever, it's is this person's skillset and context to the problem that is really needed.”
“The reality is operations teams, local teams, can iterate faster, can scale talking to customers really much more efficiently, have great qualitative insights.”
