795 memorable quotes from Lenny's Podcast guests
“You really want to try to put them to some questions where you know they're going to answer honestly because you're asking them questions.”
“The thing about product-market fit is that I find it's mysterious to a lot of people, and people tend to think about it purely as an art rather than a science.”
“Finding product-market fit is the single most important thing that your startup does in the first three years, and it's just underexplored and it's just underexplained as a topic.”
“The heart of good product is really getting comfortable in the problem space or the opportunity space.”
“Most of the time, in fact the sign that you ran a good interview, is your customer is going to say, 'Wow. When can we do this again?'”
“I'm going to go with one is better than zero.”
“You need to understand motivations in people for building products and for building teams and organizations.”
“Have a beginner's mind. Go in assuming that you know nothing and listen to your customers.”
“You have to commit to whatever you're doing and have no regrets about it.”
“Everyone should always be conscious of the owner's delusion.”
“If you can't see almost limitless opportunities to improve, then you shouldn't be designing the product.”
“You can't destroy value for your customers and expect to be successful. You have to actually make their lives better.”
“I really, really, really think that there is not a single person on this planet who is even close to being at their maximum potential.”
“I have found that reminding people of their own potential constantly is actually a wonderful thing to do.”
“Every product in the world, the quality at the end of the day is simply a reflection of how much the people who created it gave a shit about the product.”
“What you're looking for when you're looking at a market, are what are the dynamics of change, what's the current and momentum that's going to pull the company and make the job easier for the founders to actually build something that endures.”
“If you're not doing that action, you're not really a user to the product.”
“You can't have one without the other. Similarly, strengths in organizations, like a decentralized organization can move really quickly, and the corresponding weakness of that is that it can feel chaotic and disorganized.”
“The art of storytelling, diagramming, so on, I think is so critical for basically any part of life.”
“I want you to upper bound us. I want you to tell us what's really amazing here.”
