Sequoia's Arc program teaches founders to operationally fake unbuilt features
Vickie Peng · Vickie Peng: Why the Best Product People Actually Build Less Product? | E1141 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Apr 17, 2024 · at 11:20
Vickie Peng, Partner at Sequoia Capital, explains the MVP scoping framework taught to founders in Sequoia's Arc company-building program.
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“We actually do have this PMF this kind of scoping MVP framework that we teach during ARC that I teach during product week. And it talks about, there's three columns, of course, there's three pillars that we break it into. And the first is what does the product actually need to do? And the second is what can you Fake. And that's when people say unscalable things, we're talking about things you could fake operationally, Wizard of Oz, behind the curtain. What are the things you can do that maybe someday your product can do, but it doesn't have to do it today for you to learn the thing that you need to learn.”
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