ideal customer profile
also referred to as: icp
8 statements across 7 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Oct 25, 2023 by Ely Lerner · across every show →
Everything said about ideal customer profile, oldest first
Oct 25, 2023
Lerner: Optimizing overall conversion without ICP tracking wastes growth resources
“One of the biggest things I see people do wrong is they see they have a conversion problem. They point a team at conversion and they look at the conversion metric overall. The problem is a bunch of those people are not ICP and they're never going to convert an…”
Oct 25, 2023
Lerner: Horizontal product ICPs are defined by attributes, not personas
“Horizontal products also have an ICP. This is, I love this one. I'm going to call this out even though you didn't ask. I think it's an important one for so many people. Horizontal products have an ICP because the true ICP should be defined in terms of attribut…”
Jan 31, 2024 positive
May 17, 2024
Zhang: Artificially narrowing target ICPs restricts business growth
“My goal there is not to be like, let's artificially constrain, because I think that actually artificially constrains your business. That's when you draw that Venn diagram, and you say, hey, you know, for Linktree, it's, yes, it's SMBs, and yes, it's creators, …”
Jul 12, 2024 positive
Roberge: Early startups should segment ICP targets into Green, Yellow, and Red tiers
“Cause we just don't know, but like there's some folks I like to do like a green, yellow, red. I have different attributes. Like, you know, how many employees were they located in the world? What sectors are they in these types of things? Right. And the green i…”
Aug 23, 2024 negative
Assigning sales reps broad geographic territories without ICPs is disastrous
“What I never want to see is, Hey, I just hired 10 reps. I put a rep in New York, rep in Dallas. And a rep in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and I told them they can have all the accounts in those geographies. You're in deep shit.”
Dec 6, 2024
Jun 27, 2025 positive
Graves: PLG founders must personally establish their ideal customer profile
“It's figuring out who is your ideal customer profile, and I strongly believe it's the founder, because that's not only going to guide your go-to-market strategy, it's also going to guide your product roadmap, and where do you continue To lean in.”