Kenny
@npckenny
Kenny
@npckenny
How many variables do we need to win
The ego is a friend on the path
“how am i coming across”
From nellie meeting…
Sounding like winston churchill when giving a group presentation is not helpful
“I think the great products are gut punch, where you just say, wow, I can't unsee that. And it goes from like the consumer experience, we used to talk about pay at the pump, right? But that was the kind of feeling you had when you ordered your first Uber.
And certainly the feeling that I think developers have when they deployed New Relic on a Rails
... See morea venture scale product is a visceral and immediate gut punch
“And he recognized that that would provide 10 to 100x of increased scale of developers creating great applications, and that they would need these tools to be able to see into them and monitor them and manage them. And so the confluence of those two things, of New Relic as a radically easier way to get APM through a cloud-delivered, simple
... See moreOur market is sufficiently small today… no one's in it
Category creation isn't so much creation as it is unlocking/taking advantage: kineticizing
“so much of the art of early stage venture is to ask the question of, can you unlock consumption? Can you tap into a latent potential energy of demand that can be made kinetic through a product experience that's radically easier to engage with and more immediately convincing minute zero, minute one, than it is in its current form.”
A rephrasing of the “aha moment”
Current thesis:
awareness of how bad you are (quantify good speaking)
Daily, frictionless practice ( practice <> performance loop)
Gamified to the tits (bereal extemp)