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Paid user acquisition should remain a small fraction of overall growth
“We try to never let it go beyond a certain portion, a very kind of low fraction of our overall attainment of new users. If it goes too high For any brief period of time, then that suggests that we're out of balance and we're not kind of focused on the right ar…”
Startup success demands extraordinary commitment compared to corporate jobs
“You're rarely going to get extraordinary outcomes from ordinary type work, and I think in a lot of the big companies, you can do relatively ordinary work in terms of your effort and in terms of your contribution and the leverage that your contribution has. In …”
Founders cannot get good investor advice if forced to constantly pitch
“We know we can't get the best insights and the best advice. If I'm worried about with each conversation, having to sort of sell them or pitch them on the status of the company or what our next plans are, want to be able to have honest, open discussions about t…”
Narrow pitch propositions outperform broad visions in startup fundraising
“I think that the primary thing that we would change is consistent with how you want to run your business, which is the more narrow you can have of a focus on what your proposition is, the better that people can understand it and give you feedback on it, and th…”