Raman Malik
23 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 8 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 15, 2024 by Raman Malik · across every show →
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Nov 15, 2024
Nov 15, 2024 negative
Malik: Removing experiment guardrails drives company-wide bold thinking
“I mean, you don't want to put guardrails over their ability to experiment and try different things. Guardrails is going to hurt everyone. It's going to make everyone think a little bit smaller. You remove those guardrails. Everyone's thinking big.”
Nov 15, 2024 negative
Malik: Big tech runs A/B tests primarily to justify performance reviews
“And then the ugly is I'm running an AB test. So that I can put something in my performance review about a number I moved, or I can like say something to my manager. And you see that as companies get bigger, right? We're running A-B tests just to like be able t…”
Nov 15, 2024
Nov 15, 2024 positive
Malik: Former founders make better growth hires due to high risk tolerance
“We have a lot of founders here, and I think the best part about hiring founders is that They are much more comfortable at taking very big swings and being willing to fail. Like it is by nature. If you're going down the founder path, you have to be a little bit…”
Nov 15, 2024 neutral
Malik: Teams running A/B tests without intuition are flying blind
“You should go into an AB test with a pretty strong confidence of what's going to happen. And this is where like intuition comes in of like, We're running this, and here's what I think is going to happen. I think we're really going to move this metric, but we m…”
Nov 15, 2024 neutral
Malik: Moving from founder to growth lead requires deliberate functional de-scoping
“Founders enjoy the variety of, I got to go work on a hundred things and I got to steer the ship, but now you're hyper-focused on, okay, I'm here to drive growth. I am de-scoping myself just to go do an excellent job at this, and that's an adjustment as well.”
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Malik: Perplexity drives substantial traffic from user sharing without viral loops
“I don't think sharing is inherent to the perplexity user journey or user flow. Like, I don't think that we have an inherent viral loop where someone does some research and then shares a thread or screenshot to another person. But there's a lot of sharing happe…”
Nov 15, 2024
Malik: Invest in growth teams after reaching 30% month 3-4 retention
“As soon as you see that you have early signs in retention, like we're seeing like, you know, if you see 30% retention in month three or four, you have the kindling in your fire where it is now worth it to go put gasoline on it, go make that investment.”
Nov 15, 2024 neutral
Malik: MBAs make sense primarily for entering structured corporate paths
“I think MBAs make a lot of sense for people who are trying to break into a specific industry. Like if you are trying to break into private equity or you want to be a PM at Amazon or go into McKinsey, then MBAs have like your preset path and you just follow you…”
Nov 15, 2024 negative
Malik: Lyft overestimated product iteration potential and hit diminishing returns early
“We overestimated how much better we could make the ride sharing product. I think we started to hit, like when you look at ride sharing four or five years ago versus today, how much has the product changed? Not that much. So if you don't believe, well, sorry, i…”
Nov 15, 2024 negative
Malik: Perplexity's long-tail influencer marketing strategy failed and wasted time
“Totally underestimated the amount of effort it is to work individually with creators on specific content and making sure they get the right messaging and perplexity is not a simple concept to explain. Like me saying AI search engine means nothing. And so to ma…”
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Malik: The majority of AI value will emerge at the application layer
“When I joined Perplexity and was writing out my pro-con list, I think the one that was, like, up there was, like, can the application layer capture and monetize value? And, or is it all just, you know, one big pass through cost? And now, you know, fast forward…”
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Nov 15, 2024 negative
Nov 15, 2024
Malik: Growth teams must check if short-term metrics still drive retention
“One is monitoring. Does this still correlate down the road once we're done with gaming it, once we're done with tinkering with it? And if we're seeing it, that correlations start to break, well, okay, I'm not being honest with myself around if we're actually h…”
Nov 15, 2024 negative