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“What do we need right now to move the needle tomorrow ?” The lofty vision was overtaking what we needed in the present.
Kareem Amin • Clay’s Path to Product-Market Fit — A 7-Year 'Overnight Success'
“ One of the biggest inflection points in growth for Airtable was adding templates. It kicked off the SEO flywheel and ended up accounting for as much as a third of total site traffic at its peak. One of the most interesting elements of this was that templates were seeded with a lot of the content made by creators in the community. This is... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • How Startups Like Figma, Facebook, and Airbnb Found Sudden Growth Inflections
“the job of a leader is to absorb complexity and pass down clarity
Slootman would start board meetings by detailing everything going wrong or likely to go wrong , rather than patting himself on the back
ChatGPT
“Strategy is accepting that you are doing something better than the other and the other is doing something better than you. You have to pick your fight.”
- Axel Dumas, CEO of Hermes
decision making at amazon
What would’ve happened if you hadn’t given the brief to a load of engineering firms who immediately focused on speed, time, distance, capacity? What if you’d given the brief to Disney instead?
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