David Lieb
20 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 21, 2022 by David Lieb · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Sep 21, 2022 negative
Lieb: Analytical product design prevents failure but caps upside
“Using science kind of bounds your variance of your outcomes. It makes sure you don't, like, totally blow it, but it also makes sure that you don't, like, find something that no one else would have found because you would never try it. And that's where I think …”
Sep 21, 2022
Sep 21, 2022
Sep 21, 2022
Lieb: Bump sold to Google because it needed to raise capital
“We need, we were gonna need to raise some more money and we weren't sure that that was the right idea for ourselves or for the team or for investors. So usually when you sell a company, it's because you either really can and want to or you need to. For us, we …”
Sep 21, 2022
Lieb: Prematurely hiring a product lead at Bump was a key mistake
“At bump, you know, we got to like, Maybe it was 30 employees, and we were, all of our vanity metric graphs were, like, going way up. We were feeling really good and I thought, oh, like, our company is gonna need to, like, figure out our business model eventual…”
Sep 21, 2022 positive
Sep 21, 2022 positive
Lieb: Great products are always built by tiny, obsessed teams
“If you look at like truly great products, pick any product that you use that you're like, that product is just really well done. Generally there are a very small set of people behind that product That really love it. That obsess over every single thing about i…”
Sep 21, 2022 neutral
Sep 21, 2022
Sep 21, 2022 neutral
Sep 21, 2022
Lieb: Ambition is the single most important trait when hiring early PMs
“I would say at the early stage, the number one thing I would filter for initially for product people, and product people at an early stage company is a very broad set of skills. Like, you're kind of looking for people who can kind of do anything decently well.…”
Sep 21, 2022 positive
David Lieb: Concentrating generalist skills in few people yields extraordinary results
“And I think that's a skill, this like generalist skill that generally people don't have at big companies because they don't need to. There's experts at big companies that do everything, but I think magic happens when you bring all that stuff together in a very…”
Sep 21, 2022
Lieb: Joining remote meetings late intentionally builds team culture
“The technique that I found, like, the most successful, it's the simplest thing I could think of, is for every meeting that I was kind of, like, the top person in, I would just intentionally show up, like, five to seven minutes late. And I would, it creates thi…”
Sep 21, 2022
Lieb: Early-stage startups shouldn't scale teams before finding product-market fit
“This is another meta mistake is people think like, oh, I like, I've raised my seed round. I have four million dollars. Like, let's go hire a team of 20 people. That's what I see all my cohorts cohort members doing. That's probably the wrong thing to do unless …”
Sep 21, 2022
Lieb: Bump reached 150 million installs, on 20% of global smartphones
“In, in, in the Bump kind of heyday, we had a hundred and fifty million installs on, on phones when the market for phones was only like, I don't know, maybe a billion phones in the world, or probably less than that, probably hundreds of high hundreds of million…”
Sep 21, 2022 neutral
Sep 21, 2022
Lieb: Prior domain experience is anti-correlated with top product performance
“In my experience, most of the really strong PMs that have emerged, say on the Google Photos team came from backgrounds with no experience in this domain really at all. Like you talked to some of them. In fact, I would say, I would probably go so far as to say …”
Sep 21, 2022 negative
Lieb: Product managers should oversee design, engineering, and analytics
“I think the product manager role as defined by the world is way too pigeonholed. I think we should broaden the responsibilities of the PM role. I think they should be much more responsible for design, much more responsible for engineering, for analytics. Like,…”
Sep 21, 2022
Lieb: Over-indexing on scale or tenure is top product hiring mistake
“I would say like the number one failure mode when people hire product leaders is they over index on Either like previous scale, like how many, how big of a team have you previously managed? Or tenure, like how long have you been doing this? What experience do …”
Feb 3, 2023
Lieb: Bump prematurely hired a product lead before reaching PMF
“I made this mistake myself at Bump. We got to like, maybe it was 30 employees. All of our vanity metric graphs were like going way up. We were feeling really good. And I thought our company is going to need to like figure out our business model. Eventually we'…”