Vaibhav Sahgal
10 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 26, 2022 by Vaibhav Sahgal · across every show →
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Oct 26, 2022 negative
Sahgal: Zynga spammed users with notifications until Facebook altered platform rules
“The worst habit I would say is we burnt out so many fucking channels. And what I mean by that is Facebook in the early days opened up notifications for the first time for developers. So you could, as a developer, just send literally hundreds of push notificati…”
Oct 26, 2022 neutral
Sahgal: Words with Friends core users were 50-to-60-year-old Midwestern women
“For us, it was Words with Friends, which was the product I've worked at for about four years, my term in Singa, and our users were not me, mostly not me. They were 50 to 60 year old women in the Midwest or somewhere in America, and they were looking to use thi…”
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Oct 26, 2022
Oct 26, 2022 positive
Sahgal: Product teams should anchor decisions to a visual persona
“What worked for us is putting a picture of this person that's called her Mary from Ohio, who is in her fifties and has Grandkids. Putting that picture in your office with, here's what she likes doing. Here's why she uses your product. And every time you're mak…”
Oct 26, 2022 negative
Oct 26, 2022
Sahgal: Startups shouldn't expect growth leaders to clean messy data infrastructure
“It would be very good to be disciplined around it because you, what you want is you don't want this person to be your head of data and to actually fix whatever's happening with your data. That is not their job. What you want is for them to be able to actually …”
Oct 26, 2022 positive
Vaibhav Sahgal: Individual contributors generated the turnaround idea for Words with Friends
“The idea that took us out of the mess was actually from an individual contributor. It was not for me. It was not for product manager. It was from an engineer and a designer who came up with it and brainstormed meeting.”
Oct 26, 2022
Sahgal: Growth teams require full-time engineers rather than contractors
“As I mentioned in the beginning, you just need a few engineers who can collaborate, who can work with this person. Full-time, much better than contractors or part-time. Again, you want people who have skin in the game, who are in it. This is a high leverage ar…”
Oct 26, 2022
Sahgal: A new growth hire taking no action in month one is a red flag
“In the first month, the red flags have got to be people who are doing a lot of talking and a lot of listening and not a lot of action. The right candidate just wants to get going. And I mean, get going as in they want to launch something their second week ther…”