795 memorable quotes from Lenny's Podcast guests
“I think it would be awesome to just get feedback from the community about what was interesting and helpful, what wasn't there, and we can improve upon.”
“If you can understand what people are going through and you start to view them a little bit more as a human, it just makes you so much more appreciative for what you have.”
“It makes winning a lot more fun when you know the hell that people have gone through.”
“If you don't have product market fit, and if you don't have a good enough growth strategy for at least one side of your marketplace, just forget about all this marketplace stuff.”
“The marketplace implies this concept of two independent and supposedly autonomous parties that you help connect and provide this exchange of value for them.”
“I think sometimes we act in ways that are non-deterministic or counterintuitive.”
“Being different is not enough, because it's very easy to build a thing that's different from what exists today.”
“My process is just teasing out introspection, it's just like, 'Are you a person who is reflective about the decisions you've made?'”
“The hero customer was the consumer, not the merchants, so it was like literally in 100% of the trade offs the consumer's needs came first.”
“You're not building a category until there is competition.”
“Employees should feel that they're evaluated fairly, and without a system enforcing some of these things, there's too much subjectivity in the process.”
“It's really about the scope of what we're trying to do and not wanting to be in something too small.”
“People think if they cut their colleagues out of the pie, they can go faster. And it's true, they can go faster. You just can't go very far.”
“There's nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.”
“Design is trying to imagine the future you want to live in and then take the steps to make it real.”
“The way we think about churn is really going back to Shopify as a kind of our mission and what we want to do, which is to increase the amount of entrepreneurship on the internet.”
“If we do that, again, many of those businesses, many of those folks will maybe on their first attempt not be as successful, but we're going to have a set of merchants who go on to become extremely big businesses.”
“Empathy, curiosity, and kindness that he showed in everything. And I hope in some of the stories that of him, it's like no matter who anyone was, curious, love to engage and learn from.”
“The key is to just keep going, just keep going.”
“I'm trying to create something that's useful.”
