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Why Zoom doesn’t have product/market fit
Having fewer users can be a good thing. According to Vicente, a large, diverse customer base is both the strength and weakness of big companies, leaving them to cater to mainstream use cases, and giving startups “the opportunity” to disrupt the market by “introduc[ing] a new way of doing things” that’s “just too radical, typically, for the incumben
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Now to a related topic: why are Zoom calls draining? Or better yet, why aren’t Zoom calls more entertaining? Forget the eye contact. I think it’s because people just don’t look as good. You’re looking humans from a very unnatural angle. They’re badly lit. It’s not a fun movie. Your mind is comparing it to reality and it’s far less engaging.
Daniel Gross • Communication in World 2.0
-It wants to serve the broadest range of real-time engagement use cases well to appeal to the customers who need everything to just work, but faces competition from more geographically and use-case focused competitors.
Packy McCormick • Bull & Bear: Agora, the API Powering Clubhouse
You can always feel when product/market fit isn’t happening. The customers aren’t quite getting value out of the product, word of mouth isn’t spreading, usage isn’t growing that fast, press reviews are kind of “blah,” the sales cycle takes too long, and lots of deals never close. And you can always feel product/market fit when it’s happening. The c
... See moreAndrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: Using Network Effects to Scale Your Product
In practice, the demand is usually not the problem. People do sign up for our trial. The problem is that they try out our product and they don't get excited about it—at least not excited enough to switch from what they currently use.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Product/market fit enables rapid growth, while the lack of it makes growth expensive and difficult. The concept of product/market fit originates in Marc Andreessen’s seminal blog post “The Only Thing That Matters.” In his essay, Andreessen argues that the most important factor in successful start-ups is the combination of market and product. His de
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