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How Gusto Built Scalable Hiring Practices Rooted in Tradition
First Round Capitalreview.firstround.com
If you're the CEO of a fast-growing startup, the mistake you'll make in the next year that you'll regret most will probably be a hiring mistake. Possibly hiring someone established, which you'll feel you should do now you're getting big, and which VCs will strongly encourage.
Paul Grahamtwitter.comA PM I once worked with was struggling to persuade somebody of something. I told him to ask them the question, “What data would I have to show you to get you to change your mind?” If they didn’t have a clear answer, then he would know this was an idea they held on faith, a bit like a religious belief. No amount of data can sway a person from their... See more
Deb Liu • Changing Your Mind
Designing products for a single person
In business, there are countless examples of products invented for a single person that then became mass-marketable. Here are a few of my favorites:
In business, there are countless examples of products invented for a single person that then became mass-marketable. Here are a few of my favorites:
- Baking soda —invented in the 1800s by British chemist Alfred Bird so that he could make bread for his wife, who was allergic to yeast.
- The typewriter —one of the
Casey Rosengren • The Power of Designing for a Single User
So, what exactly has OpenAI done differently? Expanding on Altman’s comments and adding a few others.
- Going to market with a consumer and an enterprise product. ChatGPT Enterprise just launched. There’s ChatGPT Plus for $20/month for consumers. Is ChatGPT just product-led growth for the enterprise product, or will OpenAI run two playbooks: one to
Matt Rickard • The Contrarian Strategy of OpenAI
Someone else’s success isn’t your failure.
100 Simple Truths
If 0 to 1 is about product-market fit, -1 to 0 is about founder-market fit. Figure out what you want to build and why you are the right person to build it before you start.