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Stripe founder John Collison explains his product principle of “talking up to the user”
John believes current consumer product thinking can be harmful:
“You have users by the wheelbarrow. You treat them in aggregate. You talk about MAUs. Everything is statistical and everything - like Linked... See more
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Compounding Growth Loops for API-First Companies
A common API-First company’s North Star metric is developer adoption, and the number of developers in an API-ecosystem tends to compound naturally in four growth loops that reinforce each other .
1. The Developer Experience (DX) Loop: Developers who explore (and eventually thrive) with the API will bu... See more
A common API-First company’s North Star metric is developer adoption, and the number of developers in an API-ecosystem tends to compound naturally in four growth loops that reinforce each other .
1. The Developer Experience (DX) Loop: Developers who explore (and eventually thrive) with the API will bu... See more
Andrew Parker • API-First: LEGOs for Business, Spidey Sense
FDEs tend to write code that gets the job done fast, which usually means – politely – technical debt and hacky workarounds. PD engineers write software that scales cleanly, works for multiple use cases, and doesn’t break. One of the key ‘secrets’ of the company is that generating deep, sustaining enterprise value requires both. BD engineers tend to... See more
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